[vorbis] Vorbis ACM codec

Gian-Carlo Pascutto gcp at sjeng.org
Mon Aug 20 13:55:44 PDT 2001



On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Hongli Lai wrote:

>
> But when you use Ogg/DivX, who would be affected by the patent problems?
> I don't see the real problem of using a proprietary codec with a free
> file format (although a free codec is certainly much and much better).
> As far as I know, AVI isn't patented either, or at least nobody is affected
> by it's patents.

I think the problem is that he is talking about DivX 3.11 which is
actually illegal software.

DivX 4 should be ok, but of course anyone supporting _those_ people
is highly immoral :)


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