From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 14 21:41:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E808B8E5 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpin2.utoledo.edu (smtpin2.utoledo.edu [131.183.2.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6ABCC2087 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:41:25 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjQBAEBChVKDtwIWl2dsb2JhbABbgz9TgnWtYo49J4ECFg4BAQEBAQgWBzyCTw8BIDsKFgIFFgsCCwMCAQIBSw0IAQGHfQUInn2PCIlciGiBKY5TglWBRgOJQo99hQ+NOIFcggw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,702,1378872000"; d="scan'208,217";a="243924586" Received: from dlpint00.utoledo.edu ([131.183.2.22]) by smtpin2.utoledo.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 14 Nov 2013 16:41:17 -0500 Received: from MSGAPP12.utad.utoledo.edu (msgapp12.utad.utoledo.edu [131.183.3.8]) by dlpint00.utoledo.edu (RSA Interceptor) for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:41:07 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.79] (76.238.196.183) by Email.Utoledo.Edu (131.183.3.18) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.328.9; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:41:07 -0500 Message-ID: <5285434B.7010401@UToledo.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:40:27 -0500 From: Robert Burmeister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 To: Subject: Cisco has released a gratis open source H.264 implementation under the BSD license. X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-Originating-IP: [76.238.196.183] X-RSA-Inspected: yes X-RSA-Classifications: public X-RSA-Action: allow MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:41:26 -0000 Note for: multimedia/x264 multimedia/ffmpeg multimedia/mplayer multimedia/vlc www/firefox graphics/gnash net/opal [1]https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-t he-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/ The most popular codec, [2]H.264, is [was] patent-encumbered and [3]licensed by MPEG LA, under terms that prevent distributing it with open source products including Firefox. Cisco has [4]announced today that they are going to [5]release a gratis, high quality, open source H.264 implementation -- along with gratis binary modules compiled from that source and hosted by Cisco for download. This move enables any open source project to incorporate Cisco's H.264 module without paying MPEG LA license fees. References 1. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-the-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/ 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC 3. http://www.mpegla.com/main/default.aspx 4. http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webrtc 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre