Mozilla puts $ 100 thousand on a free competitor. Flv
Most of the videos on the Internet are now distributed in the .flv format, which is owned by Adobe. This means that video hosting sites have to pay for a license and suffer from all sorts of restrictions. Definitely free format / codec is better.
And, very possibly, soon we will get it. More precisely, the codec - Theora - is already there. But now its further development and improvement was supported by Mozilla . The $ 100,000 that the company allocated to the Wikimedia Foundation as a target grant may well serve the "replacement" of Flash as the main format for web-video.
All this, of course, for good reason. Mozilla is interested in the Theora codec in connection with the upcoming release of Firefox 3.1, which integrates support for the Vorbis audio codec and the Theora video codec. It is clear that Mozilla relies on these codecs. And they are trying to financially assist their further development in the hope that in the near future they will be able to compete with Adobe Flash.
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There are chances. First, Theora is not inferior in compression levels to formats such as MPEG-4, DiVX, XviD, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video. And, secondly, it does not require license fees when distributing video production. On this, provided the format is fine-tuned to the mind and the confidence that users will be able to watch videos without any problems, as before, many video hosting sites may bite.
The main thing is that other manufacturers of popular browsers support the Mozilla initiative to implement Theora.
via techdigest
And, very possibly, soon we will get it. More precisely, the codec - Theora - is already there. But now its further development and improvement was supported by Mozilla . The $ 100,000 that the company allocated to the Wikimedia Foundation as a target grant may well serve the "replacement" of Flash as the main format for web-video.
All this, of course, for good reason. Mozilla is interested in the Theora codec in connection with the upcoming release of Firefox 3.1, which integrates support for the Vorbis audio codec and the Theora video codec. It is clear that Mozilla relies on these codecs. And they are trying to financially assist their further development in the hope that in the near future they will be able to compete with Adobe Flash.
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There are chances. First, Theora is not inferior in compression levels to formats such as MPEG-4, DiVX, XviD, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video. And, secondly, it does not require license fees when distributing video production. On this, provided the format is fine-tuned to the mind and the confidence that users will be able to watch videos without any problems, as before, many video hosting sites may bite.
The main thing is that other manufacturers of popular browsers support the Mozilla initiative to implement Theora.
via techdigest
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/50415/
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