Formats vs Standards Re: [LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: Article: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
>> Rick Welykochy wrote:
>>
>>> I know there are open audi standrads, but are there any open video 
>>> standards?
>>
>>
>> Sure there are.  See http://www.theora.org/.
> 
> 
> Excellent. I will have a play with this. I see that VLC can support
> theora. I would like to see how the quality of theora encoding
> compares to other formats, and what trade-offs can be made
> between compression size and video quality.
> 
> I note tha PNG evolved as an open standard for images, probably
> in response to the GIF patent. And after a number of years is now
> supported in most browsers and image editing suites.
>
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Just came across  MNG format....the writing penguin is pretty busy 
through mozilla 1.4/Knoppix 3.1
<http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_pics.html>

> I don't get the feeling the same progress has been made with ogg
> vorbis audio (yet) but we can wait. I hope similar will happen to
> theora.
> 
> 

OGG seems pretty widely used....Windows and I-Pod users recognise the 
word - could call it a standard.

Not sure whether Vorbis and Theora open format's yet fall into the 
standard category. ie whether anyone else other than the proponent of 
the format has adopted it.

Marghanita
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