Author: Michael

Everything old is new again…

HMMMM… the continuing legacy of patented video compression. But now rather than the David vs. Goliath of Theora/Xiph.org vs. MPEG LA it’s Google vs. MPEG-LA. Interesting though how this coverage in the main stream technology press doesn’t even once mention free software, nor even open source. What’s also not discussed is the relation to hardware […]

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videoconverter.js

How to run ffmpeg in the browser? Compile it to javascript of course! Is LLVM is the new gcc and javascript the new C?! Crazy cool. http://bgrins.github.io/videoconverter.js/

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“Cisco to release an open-source H.264 codec”

Exciting news for online video and/or another case of strange corporate bedfellows (as Cisco woes Mozilla spurning Google?). Read on…

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