On 07/19/2009 11:00 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > As the subject says, if not to watch the Feynman lectures, then what else? > http://research.microsoft.com/tuva
If the lectures are so important, it would be equally important to make them available under non patented encumbered non proprietary formats. Microsoft had a real chance to do so by voting for Ogg Theora in HTML 5 but preferred to remain silent while Nokia and Apple screwed it up by claiming submarine patent fears. http://lwn.net/Articles/340132/ Google did its damage as well by unfounded claims that quality was not good enough for them to use it YouTube http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html Red Hat meanwhile is funding the effort to improve Ogg Theora codec quality (Thusnelda project) http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/41489.html I can actually play Ogg directly with Firefox 3.5 in Fedora 11 at the moment but the fight between vendors over Flash, Silverlight and others has set the web back one more time. If you want the web to remain open instead of a quagmire of proprietary plugins, choose open codecs. Rahul _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
