Money For Nothing and the Codecs For Free

Davis Freeberg writes "In an in depth discussion on the codec industry, CoreCodec CEO and Matroska Foundation board member Dan Marlin shares his thoughts on the growing popularity of the MKV container, confusion in the marketplace between X.264/MKV and DivXHD and weighs in on a controversial decision by Microsoft to block third party filter support in future versions of Windows media player. His interview offers a behind the scenes look at an important piece of technology that is helping to power the P2P movement. It also raises the prickly question of whether or not Microsoft is abusing their OS monopoly, in order to rein in competition within the codec industry."

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More on Streaming? Interview?

[eldavojohn]

From their goals:

• creating a modern, flexible, extensible, cross-platform multimedia container format;
• developing robust streaming support;
• developing a menu system similar to that of DVDs based on EBML;
• developing a set of tools for the creation and editing of Matroska files;
• developing libraries that can be used to allow developers to add Matroska support to their applications;
• working with hardware manufacturers to include Matroska support in embedded multimedia devices;
• working to provide native Matroska support in various operating systems.

I would have liked to hear more on how he plans to break into the streaming market when everyone is going proprietary on that for the sake of DRM. He mentions it briefly but does he have any definite plans?

Davis Freeberg, if you're reading this could you introduce Marlin to the editors for a Slashdot Interview? I can think of a lot things to ask him as I'm sure other users could ...