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Sun Developing Open Media Stack

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shine-it-up-and-call-it-new dept.

Graftweed writes to share that Sun is working on a new open video codec called Open Media Stack (OMS). OMS video will be based on H.26x technology and promises to deliver royalty-free open video. This certainly isn't the first attempt at an open codec, hopefully Sun will decide to add something to the table beyond just their name.

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  1. Seriously? Why? by rmdir+-r+* · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What's wrong with existing solutions? Xiph has a pretty good container format, and a codec comparable divx/xvid, while the BBC has recently finished Dirac, which is not quite ready, but which has the advantage of being:
    • Patent and royalty free (the BBC worked very hard at this)
    • GPLv2, LGPL, MIT or MPL licensed reference implementation
    • Finished: the bitstream has been frozen, etc. Integration with container formats isn't quite there though.
    • Better than h.264
    So why is trying making a patent-free h.264 clone worth the time? You are certainly duplicating effort, and we already have solutions.

    NIH, perhaps? Too many bored engineers?