Yo,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote:
> Geoffrey Lee wrote:
>
> >
> > Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal.
>
> Maybe also a rpm with .spec file for codecs with 'NoSrc:', so to
> not include binaries, but to let users to build the RPM of the codecs themselves.
>
I saw that Fred Crozat compiled Xtheatre just now, he put a URL to the codecs.
Maybe I'll actually build a script (oh, later ...) and get things with wget.
> Anyway IMHO it's just a matter of time. Now that it has been demostrated
> that wavelet compression (such as those in MP4, but wavelet allows more, MUCH more)
> could compress a DVD in a CD, there will be plenty of 'also free source'
> (http://www.proyectmayo.com, http://www.3ivx.com/) [I don't think MPEG group could
>patent 'wavelets'] codecs. The
> problem will be, which standard will impose.
> Will be this the end of the DVD?
>
I don't care much for DVD, as long as there is that horrible "regional
algorithm" (taking all legalities into account of course,)
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