New Open Video Codec From Xiph/On2

xercist writes: "Xiph.org, the bringers of the mighty Vorbis codec, have done it again. The patents on On2's VP3 video codec have been effectively neutered, and it is being released under the BSD license for all to enjoy. The combination of VP3 video and Vorbis audio (in an OGG bitstream, of course) will be called Theora, and will soon take over the world. The ETA to a 1.0 release is approximately one year. You can also read an interview with Emmett Plant (Xiph CEO) here. The official press release will be up tomorrow, so don't complain about lack of mention on xiph.org just yet."

Comments

Re:Change?

[kwan3217]

grep "xercist" /dev/random ...you'll find me in there someday :)

now that is a truly interesting waste of computer time...

Re:very nice but can it overtake DivX?

[BlowCat]

Very simple. Set threshold to -1. Now we see following:

• First musical post! -1
• Penis hoooooo!! -1
• post for osama -1
• very nice but can it overtake DivX? +3

The trend is clear - the first on-topic message is moderated up regardless of how dumb it is. I don't have an exhaustive explanation, but I guess it has to do with the deluge of off-topic posts and the deficit of the moderation points. Having one point, 3 offtopic posts and one on-topic post, it's "cheaper" to moderate up the on-topic post than to give the idiots what they deserve.

That is no mod point deficit on kuro5hin, and that results in much better moderation. It's darn hard to stay near 5 points if everybody can rate you down. And it's a good thing IMHO.

You gotta love On2 Tech.

[evilviper]

You've just got to love any company that makes a movie called To Kill a Lawyer.