Re: matroska container sold to IBM

    Yesterday was April Fools, some people have an interesting humor sense... Char, what about
selling openhdot264 to Nokia?  :-D

    /AITOR

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From: "Christian HJ Wiesner" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:59 PM
Subject: [Hdot264-devel] matroska container sold to IBM


>
> Hi all,
>
> i have some great news to spread today, and i am indeed extremely happy
> that i have the honour of doing so :
>
> The matroska project, including all source code and the main
> specification, by signed contract dated 31st March 2003, was sold to the
> International Bussiness Machine Corporation ( IBM ), New Orchard Road,
> Armonk, NY 10504, USA. . My thanks goes to Dan 'Metaboy' Marlin from the
> Corecodec team for making the initial contact, Dan, without you this
> would have not been possible.
>
> IBM will convert the matroska project and all libraries into a closed
> source format, but make the binaries of the library publically available
> for non-commercial usage, together with an API to be able to read/write
> matroska files from all applications on different OSes. An  arrangement
> was made with all active developers to make it possible to allow a
> changing of the existing GPL/QPL dual licensing system.
>
> After months of hard negotiations there can be no doubt that one of the
> first commercial license takers of matroska will be the Matsushita
> Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, chosing matroska as their main container
> format for an upcoming proprietary blue laser DVD standard to be
> released by Panasonic and some of their licensees on the new standard,
> in an attempt to avoid the domination of the Windows Media Video 9 (TM)
> standard from Micorosoft (R)  for next generations HDTV video. Panasonic
> already announced they will use a wavelet based video codec called WARP,
> created by the IBM video compression department around the well known
> codec expert Mr. Toby Hudon ( performing wavelet on 512 consecutive
> frames, and on every frame itself ), and to use the musepack audio
> compression format ( MPC ) for audio.
>
> I sincerely hope that all of you will see the big advantage for the
> opensource audio and video community in undertaking this step, as from
> now on there will be one new standard a/v container, in possession of
> one of the biggest computer companies of the world, but fully available
> for the community.
>
> Best regards from Hawaii
>
> Christian
> http://www.matroska.org
>
>
>
>
>
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