On 07/08/09 06:53, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: --snip-- > > > (1) Many thanks to Frank Murphy for a few helpful lines on the matter. > > This said, I hope we can go on with determining if windows media codecs > aren't, just as doc and xls formats, anything but a marketing scam. > Windows media codecs, and indeed "patented" software in general, are a way for various companies to make money. You will notice as soon as a patent comes near it's end, oh, suddenly this new codec appears, which will be flavour of the month. This is just a method, keep the wallets full from a patent pov. --snip-- > > The reason you can get a whole bootlegged movie on the internet that > occupies much less than 4 GB, is because it's compressed. ( I suppose MP2 > on DVDs also offers some compression.) Also what the "uploader" considers irrelevant is stripped from the encoding, trailers etc.. > In order to provide video on the net, Real Media, Windows Media, Flash > also compress video, but to different degrees. Also, if a program is very > popular and thousands of people are asking for it, by waiting just a few > seconds before beginning a stream, you will feed more than one viewer at a > time. With video, bandwidth is a concern. > All about making money. If it was just about the content, they would make sure to use a really free and open method, has not HTML5 video already no longer the shine in the eye, due to objections from Apple. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
