Re: [gst-devel] Re: Helix Player virtual team meeting

[Michael Maloney <mmaloney real com>]

Amen, I think we all share that vision. A good and OPEN video codec  
might change the world over night. An OPEN DRM perhaps even more-so.  
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of the Helix Platform is that it is  
not an OPEN end-to-end A/V platform as promised yet. We call this the  
'dirty sock' around here and are hoping that it gets washed in the next  
load...

On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Lee Braiden wrote:

> On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 6:30 pm, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > But as hackers, a lot of us want our program *and all its  
> > dependencies*
> > to be Free so the whole thing can be modified, and given to our friend
> > across the road without breaking any laws.
>
> Moreover, we like our end-products to be open too -- hence the  
> enthusiastic
> investment in blender so that people can develop free models, free  
> plugins,
> free scenes, and free open source movies.  Hence, the interest in free
> compilers for free code.
>
> We don't want to produce videos in a closed format that aren't  
> guaranteed to
> be available in future.  No more than we want to distribute documents  
> in Word
> format.  We want to distribute videos that can be opened and edited on  
> any
> open source platform, knowing that platform has and always will have  
> the
> tools available to use the video.
>
> In this sense, real video formats, unless completely open, cannot ever  
> be more
> than backwards compatibility options to be replaced by Theora, etc.
>
> Finally, and still most importantly for me, what Open Source desktops  
> need
> most right now in terms of multimedia is a standardised API so that  
> all video
> tools can automatically access the same codecs, etc.
>
> I want to know that any movies I make in a 3D app can be encoded in  
> all of the
> formats my NLE app can handle.  I want to know that my movie player  
> can play
> them all back just as easily, and that my open source game can play  
> them as
> an intro sequence.  It's only logical.
>
> So, while others question technical license details, I'm simply asking  
> this...
> what's being offered that Open Source needs or wants?
>
> --  
> Lee.
>
>
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