The main reason is patents. We'd rather not have any code that depends on patented technology and mpeg4 is heavily patented. On the other hand, mjpeg is not.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Wild<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > is there a specific reason why the movie encoding was changed from MPEG4 to > MJPEG? > > See: http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8925 > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
