On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> > wrote: >> we pretty much ship all of those that do not require licensing >> contracts/deals... > > Would it be possible for us to be a bit more specific about the > default/supported set? > > The set of codecs that require licensing contracts certainly vary from > country to country. To be correct, I shouldn't say "require a license" > or "require a contract," but more something relative to the likelihood > of getting sued, as nobody can ever really get a bulletproof "license" > to a particular codec, given the number of software patents that could > read on the codec. > > In that vein, I know that representatives of the MPEG-LA have made > vague threats against both Ogg Theora and WebM, however I hope that > given the shared goals between MeeGo and other FOSS projects, Theora, > Vorbis, VP8, and the Ogg and Matroska containers will all be supported > by MeeGo right out of the box. > > I think it could be very helpful to have a wiki page listing supported > codecs (and perhaps other supported formats, e.g. image formats) for > Meego. I think we're going to hear this question come up often!
Totally agree. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
