OMS Video

OMS Video is an open, royalty-free video compression specification currently^[when?] under development by Sun Microsystems's Open Media Commons as part of the Open Media Stack. It defines a video decoder and the associated bitstream syntax.^[1] It is intended for delivery, storage and playback of video streams.

It was announced on April 11, 2008. The latest version of OMS Video Specification is 0.91, released on June 9, 2009.^[1]

OMS Video design

OMS Video is based on an updated version of the H.261 codec as some of the patents on it have now expired.^[2] Vorbis is currently planned for use as the audio codec.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Open Media Stack Video Specifications". Open Media Commons. 2009-06-09. http://www.openmediacommons.org/collateral/OMS-video-specs.html. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
2. ^ Nathan Willis (2008-08-22). "Sun's OMS Video codec project is a means to an end". Linux.com. http://linux.com/archive/feature/145347. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
3. ^ Robert Glidden (2008-04-11). "OMS Video, A Project of Sun's Open Media Commons Initiative". http://blogs.sun.com/openmediacommons/entry/oms_video_a_project_of. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 

External links

• announcement of OMS Video
• Sun ponders video codec technology - InfoWorld
• OpenMediaCommons.org official homepage

See also

• H.261
• Vorbis
• Video compression
• Open Media Commons
• Dirac (codec)
• Theora
• Codec
• Open source codecs and containers