On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ...
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all
of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!?
While I've never touched
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ...
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all
of the stuff necessary to do
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer
media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be
able to get right.
Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in
their codecs, and
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all
of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!?
Ahhh, what does it meant to do DVD-authoring? Moving encoded bits on
a DVD? No problem! Taking video bits from my video camera (encoded
into Mpeg) and putting it onto my DVD? No
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
[...]
H.264? Mpeg3/4/2?
Have your friends send you Ogg Vorbis stuff. Plays fine.
Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things (or at least
Microsoft thought it had paid up
On 3/5/2010 6:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com writes:
And, actually..., I saw came upon these interesting articles the other day:
http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/
Ralph,
So what it really comes down to is not who is in compliance with the
patent but who the patent-holders permit to violate their patent, how
well the patent holder was compensated to look the other way, and
whether at some future date the organization in this state of grace
manages to
