Owen Smith wrote: > $2 royalty to unpack an mpeg2-ts? That's outrageous, are you sure? It's > not that difficult to unpack a ts and it was hardly cutting edge > research to create the format. >From Wikipedia: "According to the MPEG-2 licensing agreement *any use of MPEG-2 technology is subject to royalties*. MPEG-2 encoders are subject to a royalty of $2.00 per unit, decoders are subject to a royalty of $2.00 per unit, and royalty-based sales of encoders and decoders are subject to different rules and $2.50 per unit.".
I don't really know if that is really the case, and I agree that it would be outrageous. But if it is the case, does it cause issues for anyone providing a plugin? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
