Re: Current status

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:22:32PM -0400, rillian wrote:
> 
> Although, for what I understand of indymedia's goals, I'd just use 
> mpeg-1 video for clips. It's at least open and well implemented, if not 
> free.

Each IMC has control over it's own implementations.  In the principals
of unity it states that we're suppost to use free software whenever
possible.  Our IMC is dedicated to being totally free, for instance, all
image formats on the newswire are converted to jpeg, all audio is
converted to ogg vorbis, etc.  Other IMCs choose to implement Real as a
standard because they find themselves unable to do anything else.

The W3D codec looks pretty useable, even though not nearly as optimised
as it should.  The problem is that whatever we support should be a
standard, ie, not something that's likely to change in an incompatable
way with the media.

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