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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."
i heart u
The same Emmett Plant that was once a slashdot author?? The OSDN keiritsu strikes again!
cheers,
YES!!!! IT DOES!!! WOOHOO.
divx sucks... way to many different codec's exist... and its not evenly supported on all platforms.
SpiderGoats are on the prowl, SpiderGoats scream and howl
I think you cut its balls off.
Or is that spaying a patent? I always get those two confused.
grep "xercist" /dev/random ...you'll find me in there someday :)
now that is a truly interesting waste of computer time...
Lots of technical and environmental problems are solved by the application of vast amounts of nuclear power
VP3 sucks harder, but consider that the target audience is a bunch of porn hounds and pirates who really don't give a shit.
BOOM!!!
-- Abdullah al-Muhajir
Would someone who mods these types of posts up, please explain why? The poster did not say anything interesting, but got a +1 interesting. I just wish I understood how this works better, so that I could adopt the same technique when I need to karmawhore.
My computer illiterate brother ran up a $400 fucking phone bill to Fiji because he unknowingly downloaded a dialer that took over his internet connection settings. The porn industry is worse than all those shitty .coms when it comes to getting your money.
Ah... I know IE requires you to download and install every character set you want to display (like hiragana/katakana/kanji)... at least the last version I ran (4.something) did. Don't have much experience with Opera... you'd think it would work.
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Mamma look!
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've just got to love any company that makes a movie called To Kill a Lawyer.
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