[M4IF Discuss] Slashdot discussion of Salon article

[Martin Jacklin]

Jeez I wish I could download QT6. I hear there's a little problem with
availability. I was thinking of available codecs, that don't explicitly
conform.
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> From: Kevin Marks [mailto:kmarks   apple.com]
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> Subject: Re: [M4IF Discuss] Slashdot discussion of Salon article
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> On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 03:35 PM, Martin Jacklin wrote:
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> > I might add:
> >
> > I heard the news that the Advanced Video Coding (AVC) group in DVB are
> > talking about integrating JVT, which they call "MPEG-4 v3" into "ETSI
> > TR 101
> > 154" - their main MPEG implementation guidelines document. This was
> > said by
> > Ken McCann of Zetacast (who is the chairman of that group) in Dublin on
> > the
> > 7th March.
> >
> > MPEG-4 offers more stable periodic and more massive codec upgrades, and
> > stays open and doesn't bundle stuff you don't need, like DRM and
> > proprietary
> > codec revision cycles which you will later need to follow closely for
> > it to
> > work. With MPEG-4 you can take what you want.
>
> More than what? You didn't say what you are comparing too.
>
> QT fits your description above better than MPEG4 does at the moment.
> QT movies from 10 years ago still play in current QT, but newer codecs
> can be added and selectively downloaded. This is all shipping today.
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