[opendtv] Re: Apple dashes hopes of Flash on iPhone
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:44:59 -0400
At 11:20 PM -0400 4/21/10, Richard C. Ramsden wrote:
As a software engineer.
Kon knows not of which he speaks.
HTML IS A LANGUAGE!
within the spec for HTML 5 is the entire spec for javascript.
HTML 5 is still being hashed out. H.264 may yet be supported. The
problem is the licensing.
The free license was about to expire a month or so ago, and was
extended for 4 or 5 yrs.
If MPEG LA were to say free forever the debate would be over. No
one with any sense wants a sword of Damocles.
The free forever is only for the client.
MPEG2 is not free. Microsoft is part of the patent pool. Buy a
computer with any version of windows a little bit goes to the patent
pool. Apple has some arrangements, though it's not for all their
systems. If you bought a computer with windows, you've paid the
license. MPEG LA has deliberately ignored non-compliance, better to
let the unwashed masses think that it's free. That and most people
have a windows system lying around somewhere. The license is not
per machine, as I understand it.
I've been dealing with this sort of crap for more than an decade.
Sometimes I think a proctologist goes home at the end of a day
feeling cleaner than I do.
Good post Richard!
I would note that the MPEG-LA terms for MPEG-2 are far more onerous
than for h.264. Apple only supports MPEG-2 on a limited basis - for
example the MPEG-2 encoder in iDVD and DVD Studio Pro include MPEG-2
support, which is paid for in the cost of these applications. An
MPEG-2 playback component for QuickTime will cost you $19.95.
But with h.264 much better terms were created, especially for
computer platforms. As I pointed out in an earlier post, the cost now
maximizes out at $5 million a year for Apple or Microsoft, which is
the reason it is supported both by QuickTime and Windows Media.
Regards
Craig
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