Several large tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Netflix have announced they will cooperate on a new open video standard. Together with Amazon, Cisco, Intel and Mozilla they’ve started the Alliance for Open Media.
The goal of the cooperation is to develop a high quality, interoperable and open video standard that works on any device and be used without paying royalties. The standard should become available for both commercial and non-commercial products.
Developers of video encoding/decoding hardware and software currently have to pay royalties to the developers of video codecs. By developing an own, open standard those costs are gone.
The goal of the cooperation is to develop a high quality, interoperable and open video standard that works on any device and be used without paying royalties. The standard should become available for both commercial and non-commercial products.
Developers of video encoding/decoding hardware and software currently have to pay royalties to the developers of video codecs. By developing an own, open standard those costs are gone.
