Marc Lavallée wrote:
Remember that MPEG is creating proprietary, industrial and commercial
standards using lots of patents. How Ambisonics can co-exist?
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Marc
The MPEG is part of the International Standard Organisation (ISO), in
fact it was founded by both ISO and IEC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso
ISO has 162 national members
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_in_International_Organization_for_Standardization>,[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso#cite_note-About_ISO-2> out of the
205 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states> total
countries in the world.
In this context, I absolutely don't understand what the term
"propietary" standard means. A standard has to be defined, and somebody
has to be responcible. The ISO is an international organization formed
by national standard committees.
If I buy some lights (I even don't use the word lightbulb...), it is a
good thing that these work in different countries, and there are no
mechanical problems if I want to install the. It is a good thing if
railway lines have the same width in different places countries, airport
communications works everywhere with available equipment, etc.
Respective to Mpeg, I greatly admire the work they have done for
video/TV etc. If you should have used "free" Divx;-) or x264, these are
still based on MPEG's work. So what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Picture_Experts_Group
The direct forerunner was the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Everybody uses their format, how it seems...
Now, it seems to me that Ambisonics and MPEG audio easily could co-exist.
Remember that MPEG is creating proprietary, industrial and commercial
standards using lots of patents.
Propietary is actually wrong, because you can license ISO standards
under known terms.
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But anyway, you are really not informed at all... Because the ISO is
issuing lots of open standards, which matter literally everywhere.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/
ISO <http://www.iso.ch/>/IEC <http://www.iec.ch/> JTC1
<http://www.jtc1.org/>/SC22 <http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/>/WG21
<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/> is the international
standardization working group for the programming language C++.
Yeah, you never should use this programming language again.
But then, things might get even more complicated for you to avoid THEIR
standads...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29
In 1989 the American National Standards Institute
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute>
published a standard for C (generally called "ANSI C
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C>" or "C89"). The next year, the
same specification was approved by the International Organization for
Standardization
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>
as an international standard (generally called "C90"). ISO later
released an extension to the internationalization
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization>
support of the standard in 1995, and a revised standard (known as "C99
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99>") in 1999. The current version of
the standard (now known as "C11
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29>") was
approved in December of 2011.
So, now you know what evil ANSI and evil ISO are, and maybe even you are
using some stuff of these evil, commercial guys. This is hard to avoid.
Even the bytecodes for text messages are coded in evil ANSI and ISO way,
which proves my case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set
The International Organization for Standardization
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>
(ISO) set out to compose the universal character set in 1989
...
Damned... The ISO Capitalists (or Communists?!) took over, and nobody
stopped them when it was time!
;-)
Bye,
Stefan
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