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by_Hiro_ ( 151911 ) writes:
It seems like Apple has something against implementing any Xiph codec... FLAC and Vorbis support in iTunes is nonexistent, and even with the QuickTime plugin, iTunes still doesn't have proper tagging support. And now refusing to add Theora support in Safari?
Perhaps someone on the Xiph board did something to one of Apple's Media guys when they were kids or something?
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Perhaps someone on the Xiph board did something to one of Apple's Media guys when they were kids or something?
Apple simply does not like free codecs because if customers are allowed to use them, then the corporation loses some control over the customers. That's the reason why people should refuse to buy anything from Apple and other companies with similar attitude towards their customers.
byOverly Critical Guy ( 663429 ) writes:
I know that's the stereotypical Slashdotters' position on the matter, but reality is that H.264 is a higher quality-per-bandwidth codec, and there are hardware H.264 decoders already available and in-use in mobile devices so that watching video doesn't drain your battery in 20 minutes.
It's cute that sites like Wikipedia insist on using formats like Theora, but the industry players have committed to H.264, and H.264 is going to be the standard.
byarose ( 644256 ) writes:
but reality is that H.264 is a higher quality-per-bandwidth codec
...for high bitrates.
It's cute that sites like Wikipedia insist on using formats like Theora, but the industry players have committed to H.264, and H.264 is going to be the standard
Don't tell us about it, tell to the CEOs of the Mozilla Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, Redhat, Opera and so on that they are not "industry players". Also don't forget to tell W3C that the real industry players changed their standard to include a patent ridden nightmare, they will be interested to hear that.
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bybenwaggoner ( 513209 ) writes:
...for high bitrates
Actually, H.264 advantages are bigger the lower the bitrate. The combination of the in-loop deblocking filter and CABAC entropy coding make a huge difference at low bitrates.
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