Tech developments for OSS (Score 3)

Tech. developments that make Windows Media obsolete (these probably need to be open standards)

The trouble here is that tech. developments come from hardcore reaserch into signal analysis. OSS imho (please give counterexamples!) most often suceeds in making widely understood technology stable and full of features.

Even if we have the Norwegians on our side, MS is pushing its money into research to stay ahead. If you check our Microsoft Research, specifically the internet media section (http://research.microsoft.com/research/china/imed ia/) you'll see what they're up to.

MP3 codecs rely as far as i know on Fourier analysis and, while encoding hard to do well, there are a few open source MPG decoder implementation.

The next version of the MPEG codecs, much like the new JPG2000, is going to be relying on wavelet technology. MPEG-4 uses things like 'shape-adaptive wavelet transforms and scalable shape coding'. Now this stuff is outside the realm of comprehension of a self net-taught hacker like myself (for now! i got me some books to read!), and i suspect it will be a while before this latest research gets implemented in OSS.

Which brings another interesting question: how is the opensource community going to lead in scientific research? Perhaps some notion of open knowledge community, where the knowledge is published, documented and organized for most efficient absorbtion into the neural tissue of the crowds of OSS coders that make this all possible.

meanwhile i'll be getting friendly with Dr.Daubechies and her orthogonal bases.

flip -out.