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
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