Archive for December, 2007

Philippe Le Hegaret W3C free video codec

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Video Revolution from W3C: Video Codec Must Be Free…..and Mozilla and Opera are (Nearly) Ready Just as software for putting still images on a web page is free, so should codecs for encoding and decoding video, said Philippe Le Hegaret, Architect Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) headed by Tim Berners-Lee. Video encoding, the essential process in which video is compressed, converted and then decoded for the Web, is patented by entities including Fraunhofer, Futjisu, Sony …