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February 26, 2008

Tantek Çelik on Open Media Web

Tagged with: , , , , , , , — John @ 12:15 pm

The second episode in the OpenMediaWeb series is Tantek Çelik:

I wonder if the trajectory he describes whereby proprietary data formats are ultimately superceded by open ones will also hold true for all this FLV video being created - as I recall the file format/spec is already well understood, and I know I’ve seen FLV players which were non-Adobe created.