I think what Jay was trying to say is that the development of free and open video codecs is hamstrung by patented algorithms.
joly On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Richard Amirault <ramira...@verizon.net> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay dedman" > (snip) > >> Video compression (especially proprietary) is a bottleneck >> with online video. > > Just the opposite ... video compression is a boon to online video. If there > were no video compression there would not be any online video. > > Richard Amirault > Boston, MA, USA > http://n1jdu.org > http://bostonfandom.org > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
