NetFlix Talks the Cloud and HTML5
May 20, 2010Netflix's Director of Web Engineering discusses HTML5, but not for video.
more »Google Reveals the WebM Project
May 19, 2010Project to create high-quality open standard for video on the Web based on Vorbis and VP8.
more »Blu-ray Compliance Comes to x264
Apr 27, 2010The x264 main developer from the VideoLAN open source project has announced that the x264 free H.264 encoder can now also create Blu-ray-quality video.
more »Lightworks Video Editor Goes Open Source
Apr 15, 2010The Lightworks video nonlinear editing program will be released as Lightworks Open Source in the fall of 2010.
more »KDE Sub-Project for Real Time Communication
Feb 24, 2010Chat, instant messaging and video communication: the KDE Real Time Communication and Collaboration (RTCC) project wants to improve the integration of real time communication into the desktop environment.
more »VP8 Codec: FSF Encourages Free Video Standard
Feb 22, 2010In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation suggested that the software giant freely release the VP8 HD video compression format after having acquired the On2 video technology firm.
more »Linux Foundation Kicks Off "The Linux Super Bowl Ad" Contest
Feb 09, 2010Linus Torvalds's foundation is doing a sequel this year of its creative community ad campaign for Linux with a second video contest. The winner will receive a laptop loaded with Linux and a trip to LinuxCon in Boston in August.
more »FSF Petitions Against iPad Use of DRM
Jan 29, 2010The iPad presented in San Francisco by Apple chief Steve Jobs has enraged the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It seems Apple is increasingly compromising user freedom by imposing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on the tablet.
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