On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oron Peled wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:53:29 +0200 > Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 19:23, you wrote: > > > MPEG-2 ---> maybe RealNetwork new open source technology??? who > > > knows? > > I understood that Ogg is also video ready. It's supposed to be a sort of > > "Meta-Format" for binary streamed media so if you wanted to put video in Ogg > > you could. I also undestood that the video enhancements are already in the > > making. Anybody who knows better care to comment ? > > Ok, you probably refer to what I vaguely recollected... It's called "Helix" > and the url is: > http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2002/xiph.html > > I listed it as questionable only because it is very young announcement > and we don't know yetfor sure how "free" will it be (e.g: would all > components of the new architecture free software, or just the decoders).
Real Networks are not going to release their codecs. The Helix framework allows the usage of such plugins. It allows the use of ogg-vorbis (and of ogg-theora, eventually). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
