Really open AVS · 9 June 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Remember the chinese doing their own multimedia standard? And it’s name AVS (Advanced Video coding Standard, how much creative)?
It aims to compete with H.264 and MPEG4. Wondering how they can do it without harming tons of useless patents?
Now they started writing an implementation under a free software license. It’s called OpenAVS. Good.
Windows Media Photo · 28 May 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Windows Media for president.
As I am pessimist in regard with Microsoft standards, this Media Photo stuff smells again like the usual way: trying to spread the usage of some own remake of the available tools. Once its used widely enough, try increasing the fees for it. At least after the competition is not possible.
Why do they like this borg-ideology?