> Nowadays it would be technically illegal in the U.S. to use LAME > [...] to encode anything without paying a license.
We can use LAME legally here. :^) I use LAME via WinAmp, primarily. > ...I can neither program an AVC implementation... Sure you can. Patent licensing would come into play only if you decided to start distributing an encoder and/or decoder "product" (either standalone or as part of another product). And per <http://www.mpegla.com/avc/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf>, it's free if you distribute fewer than 100,000 units/year. > And my name is Manu*e*l. Oops, sorry. -- Charles
