Oh, What a Lovely Standards War

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "You know something big must be afoot when people start to get worked up over video compression standards. Basically, the issue is whether the current de facto standard, H.264, will continue to dominate this field, and if not, what might take over." Related, reader eihab writes "Nuanti, a company that develops Web browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti's Highgate Media Suite will enable support for standards-based HTML5 video streaming with Theora in browsers that have Silverlight. It works entirely without requiring the users to install any additional software."

Comments

+1 for MS? :)

[ChunderDownunder]

Moonlight 3.0 will support Theora.
Since Apple is competing with Google for the title of the company that can "Do most evil", should we be cheering on Miguel and MS in the hopes that Theora gains some traction?

Re:Doublespeak

[biryokumaru]

Typically when I see a UI done with flash, it's rarely at a level of sophistication where it couldn't have been done significantly more efficiently with CSS and Javascript. And unlike flash UIs, which are always tiny and unusable, it would have been scalable to a usable size for my monitor's resolution.

Re:H.264 is ISO/IEC 14496-10, not a de facto stand

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah but given the overall reality philosophy, thats life

Re:Yes, in this case, +1 for MS.

[MostAwesomeDude]

Troll harder. Theora is H.263, it can be decoded on H.264 decoders thanks to the inherent programmability of said decoders.

Apple has a vested interest -- they get a slice of the patent pie from Sorenson for MPEG-4 licenses.