Dirac video codec (Re: Opportunity to hack)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:12:05AM +0800, John wrote:

> The Beeb wants help developing open source video codec, and I'm sure 
> most of us would like to encourage that.
> 
> There's an article about it at 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/06/bbc_open_source_video_codec/

The key questions would be:

- How does it stand with regard to patents on video encoding?
- How does it compare to Theora?

The article says "the BBC had taken care to make sure the technology could
be taken up by the community without entangling developers in patent
disputes.", which is a bit vague regarding the first point, but oddly
doesn't mention Theora at all.

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 - mdz