Batu69 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 The newly formed Alliance for Open Media hasn't officially announced that they see VP9 as the next-generation media format, but sources indicate that will be the case.We all know that Adobe Flash is a hot, bug-ridden mess. If you've been following the video codec business, you'll know that HEVC Advance, a patent pool, wants 0.5-percent of content distributors' gross revenue for using HEVC Video. In other words, they want 0.5 percent of Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, YouTube, and all other HDTV and 4K content distributor's revenue.That's gone over well.For the Internet companies, who've been annoyed at the MPEG-LA video patent fees for ages, this was the last straw. Seven leading Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media. This open-source project will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and streaming technologies. The Alliance's founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix.Although they've battled each other with proprietary video formats for years, these companies are ready to quit fighting with each other. They're also sick and tired of cleaning up one Adobe Flash security problem after another.How to disable Adobe Flash on Windows, Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 At last! Waited too long for this to happened. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuan Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 That is cheaper for them, if they put just a fraction of what they would have to pay of HEVC Codec they can even pay someone to build something else, asking 0.5 was a crazy move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkc21 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Good news for everyone. Flash has been terrible these last years, not even mentioning performance-wise issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I never found any major problems with Macromedia (then Adobe) Flash Plug-in.I play a lot of flash games and only had maybe three (3) or four (4) crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 nothing is perfect when it comes to codecs, this is life and a roller cycle in the IT industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I never found any major problems with Macromedia (then Adobe) Flash Plug-in.I play a lot of flash games and only had maybe three (3) or four (4) crashes.I've found almost all my complete Chrome crashes (not a tab, but the whole browser), have then opened and blamed the built in Flash. Mileage may vary.Instead of Click to Play, I have uMatrix not allow plugins. If I want your site to run Flash, I let you run it. Otherwise, I don't want Chrome to even waste the bandwidth downloading the Flash file to then throw up a click to play box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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