Lib-Ray (A free and open high-definition video standard for fixed media: no DRM, no region codes, no secrets... No limits!)
You know about this?
http://lib-ray.org/
http://code.google.com/p/lib-ray-video-tools/
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/lib-ray-video-format
I am a member!
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Looks very interesting. I hope it takes off but I'm not holding my breath.
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It looks like it has good potential, it already was fully funded as of last year.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144275086/lib-ray-non-drm-open-standards-hd-video-format
Nice find!
Lib-Ray seems to be a good alternative for those who want to produce HD content. For the "consumer" site I still both fail to see good support in at least some applications (e.g. XBMC) and good reasons to use Lib-ray instead of (lets say) a MP4 / MKV contrainer with identical codecs (if one likes to stay free of propritary codecs like h264, MP3 and the alike).
Personally I will stay with h264 / AC3 because this is what all / most of my playback devices support.
h.264 is patented, not "proprietary", and MP3 is patented, too (and it's an audio format, not a video format). The major non-patented, non-secret formats are the Ogg formats (usually Ogg Theora/Vorbis), Matroska, and WebM.
@opon4: Thanks for clarification ! Patented is the right term. Sorry for choosing the wrong word. But in the end this does not change much the mayor point of my posting :)
There are open & free options like Opus, FLAC, the Ogg stuff but they usually lack support throughout the available devices.
Example: If I give away a movie of my litte one to my parents, they can easily play back a file using patented formats / codecs (1080p in MP4 container using h264 and AAC) in their DVB-S2 receiver with external HDD while they could never play back a 1080p MKV file with VP8 for video and FLAC for audio.
Oh yeah...and a small follow up:
Why did you write that MP3 is not a video format ?
I was purely speaking about codecs which include audio as well as video :)
It sounded like you were suggesting that MP3 was a non-patented alternative to h.264, which isn't true. They're both patented, and serve different purposes.
