Alec Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:19 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote: > >> Why they can't use some sensible format I don't know, as Realplayer is >> that reliable under windows either. >> > I'm guessing by a "sensible format", you mean something like MPEG. If > that's true, they probably don't because the MPEG licensing authority > charge for use of MPEG encoding, whereas real (or whatever the company's > called) and Microsoft probably don't charge, and perhaps even pay BBC > for the publicity of their formats. > > If you meant something even more sensible like ogg vorbis/theora, it > isn't compatible with windows so that's unlikely to happen. Or they > could keep windows media and real media for winblows users and give us > ogg vorbis/theora too. I see a petition starting :) But first let's get > in touch with them. >
In fact, RealMedia formats require a fee of US$500 per server. The smart money, I'd have thought, would be on Dirac: royalty fee, developed under the same license as Firefox, and (unlike Theora) twice as bandwidth efficient as MPEG-2. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
