Re: matroska container sold to IBM

We should appreciate his painful efforts, at least, to
pen a very authentic e-mail to all of us ;-)

--- Aitor Garay <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     Yesterday was April Fools, some people have an
> interesting humor sense... Char, what about
> selling openhdot264 to Nokia?  :-D
> 
>     /AITOR
> 

> >
> > 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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