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> That's not going to happen as a charity or by weekend hackers. To be honest that's exactly what happened with Vorbis (1 FOSS guy) and Opus (2 FOSS guys, 1 Sk
by rockdoe 12y ago
> That's not going to happen as a charity or by weekend hackers.
To be honest that's exactly what happened with Vorbis (1 FOSS guy) and Opus (2 FOSS guys, 1 Skype guy).
The MPEG process is full off politics and massive overheads.
- sp332 12y agoThose are audio codecs, not video codecs. Xiph worked on Theora for 7 years and never got close to H.264, and Daala is promising but HEVC is amazing right now.
- nitrogen 12y agoTheora and Daala are both hamstrung by working around minefields of patents on essential processes to video processing.
- throwawaykf05 12y agoInterestingly, the Vorbis project only really took off after mp3 started facing licensing issues. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis > Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format. Who says patents don't promote innovation? :-) (I'm only half-joking - invention forced by working around patents has long been a post-facto justification of patents.) Also, nit, it wasn't all done by just "1 FOSS guy". From the same wikipedia link: > Chris Montgomery began work on the project and was assisted by a growing number of other developers.
- derf_ 12y agoIn my case, a substantial amount of my work on Opus was done literally from my basement (sorry, I didn't have a garage).