Alliance for Open Media
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| Abbreviation | AOMedia, AOM |
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| Formation | September 1, 2015 |
| Founders | Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix |
| Purpose | Develop a royalty-free video format |
| Headquarters | Wakefield, Massachusetts |
| Products | AOMedia Video |
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Parent organization
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Joint Development Foundation |
| Website | aomedia |
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is a non-profit organization whose first project is to develop a new open video codec and format as a successor to VP9 and a royalty-free alternative to HEVC. The founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix. The collaboration goal for the future of this joint development foundation is to "avoid more patent and licensing battles that have been a big roadblock to innovation." The alliance also aims to provide competition to the Moving Picture Experts Group, who provide backing for the video data compression methods most commonly in use in 2015. The project will release new video codecs as free software under the BSD 2-Clause License and will use elements from Daala, Thor, and VP10.
On September 1, 2015, the Alliance for Open Media was announced with the goal of developing a royalty free video format as an alternative to e.g. the licensed H.264 and HEVC. The plan is to release the video format by 2017.
On April 5, 2016, the Alliance for Open Media announced that AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA had joined.Adobe, Ateme, Ittiam & Vidyo joined in the months following.
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