Codecs and Software Patents - Part VIII - GNU Audio/Video Team Has Chosen the AV1 Video Codec and It Explains Why (They've Researched Their Options)
Last month: GAFAM Mozilla Removes Theora Support, Now GNU Needs to Re-encode Videos
This month: Web Browsers Are for Rendering Web Page, They Shouldn't Become PDF Editors (Mozilla has removed perfectly OK codecs while turning a Web browser into an editor of PDF files!)
Yesterday: Mozilla is Subverting Firefox Into Slop-Pushing Plagiarism-Excusing 'App'
Hours ago I received the official word from an insider. AV1 video codec will be used to encode and share GNU videos online; many are public talks by GNU's founder and current leader (since 1983), who plans to give a talk next month in Erlangen, Germany. Some sites, not only the FSF's, already advertise this talk of his (RMS).
Weeks ago they brought him to Texas for a talk.
Some time soon the GNU Audio/Video team will have lots of his talks online, arranged in a "catalogue" one can navigate through more easily.
We'll say more on the choice of the codec (partly endorsed by RMS) in the next part. █
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