SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
19 points by ignaloidas
19 points by ignaloidas
Yeah it took me longer than I’d care to admit to realize this wasn’t email related
more freely accessible standards seems great!
i had not heard of SMPTE before, and found their self-descriptions on the website to be a bit confusing… seems to be a private professional organization that exists to get “thought leaders” in various industries together so they can work on standards in their respective fields? prior to this change, were the resulting standards only accessible to SMPTE members?
They make standards used by essentially all TV/video products sold in the US and also some other countries around the world. (E.g. the SMPTE time code you might have seen in your audio or video editing software.) Prior to this change the standards cost money to read, IIRC.
Yes, and not a little money either. This is great news for projects such as ffmpeg, or anyone making free software for video editing in general.