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Well, I recall the previous "poster child" of FOSS codecs was Ogg Vorbis which competed with MP3 and AAC just fine. As for video research being expensive, you'
by hvis 6y ago
Well, I recall the previous "poster child" of FOSS codecs was Ogg Vorbis which competed with MP3 and AAC just fine.
As for video research being expensive, you're right, of course. We're probably seeing much increased funding in FOSS codecs now compared to all previous decades.
- tatersolid 6y agoVorbis became competitive with MP3 and AAC many years after those commercial codecs were introduced. So again, the FOSS codec was nowhere near state-of-the-art.