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
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