Cisco introduces the Thor video codec
Aug. 11th, 2015 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphmontI want to mention this on its own, because it's a big deal, and so that other news items don't steal its thunder: Cisco has begun blogging about their own FOSS video codec project, also being submitted as an initial input to the IETF NetVC video codec working group effort:
"World, Meet Thor – a Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec"
Heh. Even an appropriate almost-us-like nutty headline for the post. I approve :-)
In a bit, I'll write more about what's been going on in the video codec realm in general. Folks have especially been asking lots of questions about HEVCAdvance licensing recently. But it's not their moment right now. Bask in the glow of more open development goodness, we'll get to talking about the 'other side' in a bit.
RE: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-13 12:45 am (UTC)VP9 has a spec, it's linked from Wikipedia.
VP9 has a developer mailing list, which is better run than a closed door standards body STUFFED with Cisco employees.
Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-13 12:40 pm (UTC)There is no specification linked on wikipedia, just some "summary" page link to Google's web (paste direct link if you find any!). You should have checked facts better, especially if you are going to accuse people that happen to know more than you from lies. People that wrote the independent FFVP9 decoder as well as other developers keep asking for it ever since VP9 has been released, but there is no specification of the format, the only reference for it is the libvpx software as I said.
Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-14 02:31 am (UTC)Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-14 02:32 am (UTC)https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6386
Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-15 02:15 am (UTC)VP8 has had a specification released (IIRC though, it was still refering to the actual code in places, so it is a bit less authoritative and complete than would be desireable). The problem is with VP9 for which it was not published or made. No idea if there is some internal or NDAed one.
Re: VP9 is proprietary
Date: 2015-08-14 02:19 pm (UTC)