Jeg har tidligere skrevet om emnet iforb. med DR’s katastrofale beslutning om at lægge sig i lænker hos micro$oft.
Det handler om åbne standarder vs. vender-lock-in. Comon.dk rapporterede nyligt om DR’s beslutning om at skifte til H.264 her i løbet af efteråret. Nyheden kommer samtidigt med at Adobe udsender en ny beta af FlashPlayer der understøtter formatet.
Det er gode nyheder. Flere licenskroner vil gå til lokal know-how, og åbner op for muligheden for uafhængighed. H.264 vil i fremtiden kunne levere Video i bedre kvalitet end HD!
Her er hvad en af Adobes ingeniører forestiller sig kunne være relevante scenarier når det kommer til at vælge videoformat:
Your media company has made or is about to make a significant investment into web video or video archiving. You are wondering what format you should choose. Video for Flash reaches everyone now, but the format is not an ‘industry standard’ so you have the fear that content you will create will become obsolete and unsupported at some point. Flash Player 9 Update 3 comes to the rescue: MPEG-4 is an extremely well documented ISO standard and completely vendor independent. And by using the Flash Player now you get instant gratification for viewers.
Det er en tro kopi af striden mellem ODF vs. M§$ OOXML. Det handler om frihed til at vælge, og det gælder om at vælge hvad der er bedst for os.
You want to get best the possible quality out of your video and do not want to be tied to a particular encoding solution. You also like open source software to do all of the work you need to do to encode video. A combination of libfaad, x264 and MP4Box which are all licensed under the GPL will do exactly that, albeit with little usability and requiring lots of expertise. But it will now play just fine through the most distributed run time in the world, the Adobe Flash Player.
(Tinic Uro, San Francisco, California, United States)
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