Cisco Announces "Thor" Royalty-Free Video Codec

[xeekei]

They mention that Daala has the same goals, but don't mention why it isn't satisfactory for them. I guess it doesn't matter that much if both are open source and developed in a way to avoid patents. But I trust Mozilla and Xiph.org more than Cisco.

[not.sure]

Anyone know why Cisco is so interested in video codecs? Do they eventually want to hardwire that into their network equipment for video conferencing?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Cisco Announces "Thor" Royalty-Free Video Codec

With Cisco not liking the patent situation around H.265 nor Google's VP9 video codec, they are spinning their own royalty-free video codec...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cisco-Thor-Video-Codec