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Video formats are extremely complex and require huge amounts of expertise to make. With your logic, why should I pay money for content? So far, it seems to be
by moxiemk1 16y ago
Video formats are extremely complex and require huge amounts of expertise to make.
With your logic, why should I pay money for content? So far, it seems to be impossible to prevent ripping and transcoding, so maybe the answer would be "you shouldn't".
- nitrogen 16y agoActually, AIUI a lot of the concepts in modern codecs have been tossed around academia for quite a long time. See this highly informative and empowering video: http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
- pornel 16y ago> Video formats are extremely complex and require huge amounts of expertise to make. And yet, we have volunteers with knowledge who are constrained by patents (I'm sure x264 guys could come up with an awesome codec, and Theora team could do much better if they weren't limited to technology they got patents for), And we have companies willing to support development of codecs (BBC Dirac, Google) which, again, are constrained by patents.