Articles by Timothy B. Terriberry
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Google and MPEG LA Agree, Free VP8
Today Google and the MPEG LA jointly announced a licensing agreement with 11 companies to protect all users of the VP8 video codec. With the agreement in place, developers can make great sites with WebM without fear of legal retribution. As a quick refresher, MPEG LA licenses the patents needed for many common, proprietary video […]
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Defending Opus
On January 18th, France Telecom filed an IPR disclosure against Opus citing a single patent under non-royalty free terms. This raises a key question – what impact does this have on Opus? A close evaluation indicates that it has no impact on the Opus specification in any way. Summary: A careful reading of the FT […]
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It's Opus, it rocks and now it's an audio codec standard!
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio codec to be standardized. We think this will help us achieve wider adoption than prior royalty-free codecs like Speex and Vorbis. This spells the beginning […]
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Opus Support for WebRTC
As we announced during the beta cycle, Firefox now supports the new Opus audio format. We expect Opus to be published as RFC 6716 any day now, and we’re starting to see Opus support pop up in more and more places. Momentum is really building. What does this mean for the web? Keeping the Internet […]
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Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Firefox 15 (now in the Beta channel) supports the Opus audio format, via the Opus reference implementation. What is it? Opus is a completely free audio format that was recently approved for publication as a standards-track RFC by the IETF. Opus files can play in Firefox Beta today. Opus offers these benefits: Better compression than […]
