A Kickstarter project called Lib-Ray is seeking to create an open source format for HD video on SDHC cards.
The project was created by Terry Hancock, a contributor to Free Software Magazine and research assistant who worked on the McDonald Observatory Planet Search program.
Lib-Ray will include a wizard for authoring high-definition videos, a player for the Flash media, and authoring documentation that would allow others to make improvements. It will use the common MKV video container format with VP8 video at 30 frames per second in 1080p and later add extensions for 60fps, 3D and 4K video.
The project is intended for a business model where donors share the costs of the production and the movie is given in return in an open-source format.
“It seems like it ought to be really hard, because Blu-ray was expensive to develop,” Hancock told Ars Technica. “But when you look closely, you realize that all of the money went to pay for the DRM. The actual task of making a video standard that supports high-definition playback and a menu system is just not that complicated. There are open standards, so it’s just a matter of picking the ones you want to use and making sure you have a player that can handle those choices.”
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