Sun Developing Open Media Stack

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.

Comments

Open source?

[billy901]

I wonder if this codec will be usable on other OS's or if Sun is just going to hog it to themselves, like their "open source" operating system which is not actually open source.

Re:Open source?

[fimbulvetr]

LOL, "Certified open source".

Much like how you can buy "Official" gold eagle dollars from those infomercials. By "Official" they mean minted by the govn't of liberia.

SLASHDOT SUX0RZ

[Anonymous Coward]

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open media

If Sun wanted to do something smart

[Dracos]

They'd back Xiph's codecs (Ogg Vorbis for audio, Ogg Theora for video) instead of reinventing the wheel yet again. This is how MS would play the open format game, not someone who can actually be believed when they talk about supporting open, well, anything.

But, this is Sun... they're opposed to making smart moves.

Re:Just their name

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Sun do anything these days other than create new initiatives / JSRs / frameworks, that never actually reach a usable stage? They're worse than Apache about creating and abandoning projects. With all the layoffs they've done, I can't believe they have enough developers to maintain the stuff they have now, much less pile on more work.