![]() ![]() With frame rates based on the frequency of mains voltage in Europe and the US respectively and all of those codecs and containers. This is an example of where you can end up without standards. It’s a case of “good enough” though I’d be surprised to hear of anyone performing MIDI sample dumps in 2016! Video CodecsĪnyone who has come to the world of video codecs from the world of audio is probably, like me, horrified. The physical layer of this standard might be less common these days, It’s a while since I had a MIDI cable plugged in at home, but the 8-bit messages those cables carried are just as ubiquitous as ever. A cross-industry, open source standard which in spite of its (by modern standards) pitiful Baud rate is still good enough to be ubiquitous and in use every day. MIDI has to be the best-known example of the kind of standards we wish would happen more often. I’ve always been of the opinion that we should recognise and value standards when we find them and we should work with the standard rather than arbitrarily abandoning them. This set me thinking about the standards in studios and production environments which help us day to day and which we take for granted. ![]() It’s just not quite the same for AoIP yet. Things like Ethernet and TCP/IP bring standards to technology and provide a common framework from which technologies can develop. The cause of the unease some of us are feeling when looking at AoIP is the lack of a standard. I think all of us would secretly like to be able to fast-forward a few years to see how things turn out (mind you, If I could do that I’d be bringing back copies of the Financial Times rather than Dante brochures). In the work, I’ve been doing recently on the blog about AoIP I’ve been aware that some people are being turned off by the compulsion to choose, to “plant your flag” in the shifting landscape of competing technologies. ![]()
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