"File rendering"

[François Téchené]

Even if H264 is currently the main format, WebM should be made available to the user. WebM is a professional grade format as much as H264 is. Also it is not proprietary. Its usage should be progressing with more and more coming free licensed film productions. It is what we are promoting with Ethic Cinema anyway. Web browsers are not the only place where you watch movies and software like VLC have no problem reading WebM.

As of today, free format seem to be useless because their proprietary alternatives seem to be giving their users many freedom, which may not be the case forever and there is nothing one can do about it.

At Ethic Cinema, we are building our internal workflow around free formats only so we make sure to avoid any restrictions with using them in the future.

Please, do consider free formats as much as you consider H264 ones.

Thanks! :)

François

On 18 déc. 2016, at 12:10, jdd <jdd at dodin.org> wrote:

> Le 18/12/2016 à 11:44, Lionel Allorge a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> IMHO the only universal format is mp4... but I don't want to start a
>>> license flame war :-(
>> 
>> The problem with mp4 are the software patents. That's why projects that
>> want to keep information free like Wikipedia avoid this file format and
>> use only webm and ogg theora :
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types
>> 
>> Best regards.
>> 
> I konw, but not any browser use free codecs... including in html5
> 
> jdd