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36-522: WebM is an audiovisual media file format. It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML video and the HTML audio elements. It has a sister project, WebP , for images. The development of the format is sponsored by Google , and the corresponding software is distributed under a BSD license . The WebM container is based on a profile of Matroska . WebM initially supported VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams. In 2013, it

72-490: A copyright license where the user has the right to use the picture without many restrictions to the licensor. The user can therefore use the image in several projects without having to purchase any additional licenses. RF licenses can not be given on an exclusive basis. In stock photography , RF is one of the common licenses sometimes contrasted with Rights Managed licenses and often employed in subscription-based or microstock photography business models. When something has

108-522: A "per port"/"per device" basis, where the manufacturer of end-user devices has to pay a small fixed fee for each device sold, and also include a substantial annual fixed fee. With millions of devices sold each year, the royalties can amount to several millions of dollars, which is a significant burden for the manufacturer. Examples of such royalties-based standards include IEEE 1394, HDMI , and H.264/ MPEG -4 AVC. Royalty-free standards do not include any "per-port" or "per-volume" charges or annual payments for

144-523: A PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit (GPU) . The 4430's GPU runs at a clock frequency of 304 Mhz, and the 4460's GPU runs at 384 MHz. The 4470 has a PowerVR SGX544 GPU that supports DirectX 9 that enables it for use in Windows 8 . It also has a dedicated 2D graphics core for increased power efficiency up to 50-90%. The 5th generation OMAP, OMAP 5 SoC uses a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU with two additional Cortex-M4 cores to offload

180-498: A SATA 2.0 controller. These are marketed only to handset manufacturers. They are intended to be highly integrated, low cost chips for consumer products. The OMAP-DM series are intended to be used as digital media coprocessors for mobile devices with high megapixel digital still and video cameras. These OMAP-DM chips incorporate both an ARM processor and an Image Signal Processor (ISP) to accelerate processing of camera images. These are marketed only to handset manufacturers. Many of

216-619: A TI-enhanced ARM925 core (ARM925T), and then changed to a standard ARM926 core. It included many variants, most easily distinguished according to manufacturing technology ( 130 nm except for the OMAP171x series), CPU, peripheral set, and distribution channel (direct to large handset vendors, or through catalog-based distributors). In March 2009, the OMAP1710 family chips are still available to handset vendors. Products using OMAP 1 processors include hundreds of cell phone models, and

252-414: A human can be protected by copyright. Since generative AI models derive their source material from a countless amount of human-generated content, it is not easy to define who owns what percentage of the rights to the results. However, larger firms which offer AI stock images such as Shutterstock sell those AI images under royalty-free licenses. OMAP OMAP ( Open Multimedia Applications Platform )

288-467: A patent infringement lawsuit was filed, causing concerns around GPL compatibility. In response to those concerns, the WebM Project decoupled the patent grant from the copyright grant, offering the code under a standard BSD license and patents under a separate grant. The Free Software Foundation , which maintains The Free Software Definition , has given its endorsement for WebM and VP8 and considers

324-439: A royalty-free descriptor, that does not mean it is free. Copyrighted work is protected from use by others without formal permission and royalty payments. Royalties are a percentage of earnings that are paid to an intellectual property owner/ content creator. The licensing (and/or copyrighting) of AI-generated images is not legally recognized yet. Most jurisdictions, including Spain and Germany, state that only works created by

360-430: A significant performance advantage over Nvidia Tegra 2's ARM Cortex-A9s with non-vector floating point units. It also uses a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller compared to Nvidia Tegra 2's single-channel memory controller. All OMAP 4 processors come with an IVA3 multimedia hardware accelerator with a programmable DSP that enables 1080p Full HD and multi-standard video encoding and decoding. The 4430 and 4460 use

396-592: A suitable third-party plug-in. In 2011, the Google WebM Project Team released plugins for Internet Explorer and Safari to allow playback of WebM files through the standard HTML5 <video> tag. As of 9 June 2012, Internet Explorer 9 and later supported the plugin for Windows Vista and later. VLC media player , MPlayer , K-Multimedia Player and JRiver Media Center have native support for playing WebM files. FFmpeg can encode and decode VP8 videos when built with support for libvpx ,

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432-916: Is WebM-enabled since version 2.3 Gingerbread , which was first made available via the Nexus S smartphone and streamable since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich . The Microsoft Edge browser supports WebM since April 2016. On July 30, 2019, Blender 2.80 was released with WebM support. iOS did not natively play WebM originally, but support for WebM was added in Safari 15 as part of iOS 15 . The Sony PlayStation 5 supports capturing 1080p and 2160p footage in WebM format. ChromeOS screen recordings are saved as WebM files. WebM Project licenses VP8 hardware accelerators ( RTL IP ) to semiconductor companies for 1080p encoding and decoding at zero cost. AMD , ARM and Broadcom have announced support for hardware acceleration of

468-526: Is a 45 nm version of the 65 nm OMAP34x with higher clock speed. The OMAP 3611 found in devices like the Bookeen's Cybook Odyssey is a licensed crippled version of the OMAP 3621, both are the same silicon (as marking are the same) but officially the 3611 was sold to be only able to drive e-Ink screen and does not have access to IVA & DSP. The video technology in the higher end OMAP 3 parts

504-522: Is a family of image / video processors that was developed by Texas Instruments . They are proprietary system on chips (SoCs) for portable and mobile multimedia applications . OMAP devices generally include a general-purpose ARM architecture processor core plus one or more specialized co-processors . Earlier OMAP variants commonly featured a variant of the Texas Instruments TMS320 series digital signal processor . The platform

540-577: Is derived in part from the DaVinci product line, which first packaged higher end C64x+ DSPs and image processing controllers with ARM9 processors last seen in the older OMAP 1 generation or ARM Cortex-A8. Not highlighted in the list below is that each OMAP 3 SoC has an "Image, Video, Audio" (IVA2) accelerator. These units do not all have the same capabilities. Most devices support 12 megapixel camera images, though some support 5 or 3 megapixels. Some support HD imaging. The OMAP 4 line consists of

576-514: Is supporting VP8 and provides both hardware decoding and encoding in the Tegra ;4 and Tegra 4i SoCs . Nvidia announced 3D video support for WebM through HTML5 and their Nvidia 3D Vision technology. On January 7, 2011, Rockchip released the world's first chip to host a full hardware implementation of 1080p VP8 decoding. The video acceleration in the RK29xx chip is handled by

612-688: Is use of a floating point DSP, instead of the more customary fixed point one. The Hawkboard uses the OMAP-L138 Many mobile phones released during early 21st century have used OMAP SoCs, including the Nokia 3230, N9, N90, N91, N92, N95, N82, E61, E62, E63 and E90 mobile phones, as well as the Nokia 770, N800, N810 and N900 Internet tablets , Motorola Droid , Droid X , and Droid 2 , and some early Samsung Galaxy devices, like Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy S II variant GT-I9100G. The OMAP3430

648-543: Is used in the Palm Pre , Pandora , and Touch Book . Other devices that use OMAP processors include Sony Ericsson's Satio (Idou) and Vivaz , most Samsung phones running Symbian (including Omnia HD ), the Nook Color , some Archos tablets (such as Archos 80 gen 9 and Archos 101 gen 9), Kindle Fire HD , Blackberry Playbook , Kobo Arc , and B&N Nook HD . Some all-in-one smart displays use OMAP 4 SoCs, including

684-775: The MPEG LA , licensors of the H.264 patent pool, have expressed interest in creating a patent pool for VP8. Conversely, other researchers cite evidence that On2 made a particular effort to avoid any MPEG LA patents. As a result of the threat, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) started an investigation in March 2011 into the MPEG LA for its role in possibly attempting to stifle competition. In March 2013, MPEG LA announced that it had reached an agreement with Google to license patents that "may be essential" for

720-691: The Nokia 770 Internet tablets . These parts were only marketed to handset vendors. Products using these include both Internet tablets and mobile phones : The 3rd generation OMAP, the OMAP ;3 is broken into 3 distinct groups: the OMAP34x, the OMAP35x, and the OMAP36x. OMAP34x and OMAP36x are distributed directly to large handset (such as cell phone) manufacturers. OMAP35x is a variant of OMAP34x intended for catalog distribution channels. The OMAP36x

756-582: The A15s in less computationally intensive tasks to increase power efficiency, two PowerVR SGX544MP graphics cores and a dedicated TI 2D BitBlt graphics accelerator, a multi-pipe display sub-system and a signal processor. They respectively support 24 and 20 megapixel cameras for front and rear 3D HD video recording. The chip also supports up to 8 GB of dual channel LPDDR2/ DDR3 memory, output to four HD 3D displays and 3D HDMI 1.4 video output. OMAP 5 also includes three USB 2.0 ports, one lowspeed USB 3.0 OTG port and

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792-516: The OMAP 4430, OMAP 4460 (formerly named 4440), and OMAP 4470. The 4th generation OMAPs have a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with two ARM Cortex-M3 cores, as part of the "Ducati" sub-system for off-loading low-level tasks. The OMAP 4430 was the SoC used in Google Glass . OMAP 4 uses ARM Cortex-A9's with ARM's SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, aka NEON) which in some cases may have

828-458: The OMAP product line is from partnership with cell phone vendors, and the main distribution channel involves sales directly to such wireless handset vendors. Parts developed to suit evolving cell phone requirements are flexible and powerful enough to support sales through less specialized catalog channels; some OMAP 1 parts, and many OMAP 3 parts, have catalog versions with different sales and support models. Parts that are obsolete from

864-521: The VP8/VP9 codec library of the WebM project, as well as mux / demux WebM-compliant files. On July 23, 2010 Fiona Glaser, Ronald Bultje, and David Conrad of the FFmpeg team announced the ffvp8 decoder. Their testing found that ffvp8 was faster than Google's own libvpx decoder. MKVToolNix , the popular Matroska creation tools, implemented support for multiplexing/demultiplexing WebM-compliant files out of

900-535: The WebM Project's G-Series 1 hardware decoder IP. In June 2011, ZiiLABS demonstrated their 1080p VP8 decoder implementation running on the ZMS-20 processor. The chip's programmable media processing array is used to provide the VP8 acceleration. ST-Ericsson and Huawei also had hardware implementations in their computer chips. The original WebM license terminated both patent grants and copyright redistribution terms if

936-469: The WebM format. Intel is also considering hardware-based acceleration for WebM in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity. Qualcomm and Texas Instruments have announced support, with native support coming to the TI OMAP processor. Chips&Media have announced a fully hardware decoder for VP8 that can decode full HD resolution (1080p) VP8 streams at 60 frames per second. Nvidia

972-428: The actual implementation of the standard, even though the text of the actual specification is typically protected by copyright and needs to be purchased from the standards body. Most open standards are royalty-free, and many proprietary standards are royalty-free as well. Examples of royalty-free standards include DisplayPort , VGA , VP8 , and Matroska . In photography and the illustration industry, it refers to

1008-523: The box. Haali Media Splitter also announced support for muxing/demuxing of WebM. Since version 1.4.9, the LiVES video editor has support for realtime decoding and for encoding to WebM format using ffmpeg libraries. MPC-HC since build SVN 2071 supports WebM playback with internal VP8 decoder based on FFmpeg 's code. The full decoding support for WebM is available in MPC-HC since version 1.4.2499.0. Android

1044-499: The implementation of the VP8 codec, and give Google the right to sub-license these patents to any third-party user of VP8 or VP9 . In March 2013, Nokia filed an objection to the Internet Engineering Task Force concerning Google's proposal for the VP8 codec to be a core part of WebM, saying it holds essential patents to VP8's implementation. Nokia listed 64 patents and 22 pending applications, adding it

1080-435: The newer versions are highly integrated for use in very low cost cell phones. The OMAP L-1x parts are marketed only through catalog channels, and have a different technological heritage than the other OMAP parts. Rather than deriving directly from cell phone product lines, they grew from the video-oriented DaVinci product line by removing the video-specific features while using upgraded DaVinci peripherals. A notable feature

1116-490: The perspective of handset vendors may still be needed to support products developed using catalog parts and distributor-based inventory management. These are parts originally intended for use as application processors in smartphones , with processors powerful enough to run significant operating systems (such as Linux , FreeBSD , Android or Symbian ), support connectivity to personal computers, and support various audio and video applications. The OMAP 1 family started with

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1152-568: The software's license to be compatible with the GNU General Public License . On January 19, 2011, the Free Software Foundation announced its official support for the WebM project. In February 2011, Microsoft 's Vice President of Internet Explorer called upon Google to provide indemnification against patent suits. Although Google has irrevocably released all of its patents on VP8 as a royalty-free format,

1188-523: Was created after December 12, 2002, as STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments jointly announced an initiative for Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces (OMAPI) intended to be used with 2.5 and 3G mobile phones , that were going to be produced during 2003. (This was later merged into a larger initiative and renamed the MIPI Alliance .) The OMAP was Texas Instruments' implementation of this standard. (The STMicroelectronics implementation

1224-764: Was named Nomadik .) OMAP enjoyed some success in the smartphone and tablet market until 2011 when it lost ground to Qualcomm Snapdragon . On September 26, 2012, Texas Instruments announced that they would wind down their operations in smartphone and tablet oriented chips and focus on embedded platforms instead. On November 14, 2012, Texas Instruments announced they would cut 1,700 jobs due to their shift from mobile to embedded platforms. The last OMAP5 chips were released in Q2 2013. The OMAP family consists of three product groups classified by performance and intended application: Further, two main distribution channels exist, and not all parts are available in both channels. The genesis of

1260-482: Was not prepared to license any of them for VP8. On August 5, 2013, a court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled that VP8 does not infringe a patent owned and asserted by Nokia. Royalty-free Many computer industry standards, especially those developed and submitted by industry consortiums or individual companies, involve royalties for the actual implementation of these standards. These royalties are typically charged on

1296-443: Was updated to accommodate VP9 video and Opus audio. It also supports the new AV1 codec. Native WebM support by Mozilla Firefox , Opera , and Google Chrome was announced at the 2010 Google I/O conference. Internet Explorer 9 requires third-party WebM software. In 2021, Apple released Safari 14.1 for macOS, which added native WebM support to the browser. As of 2019, QuickTime does not natively support WebM, but does with

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