[vorbis] Ogg Vorbis in the news

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Peter Schuller wrote:

> One question: what about ffmpeg's libavcodec? Their MPEG-4
> implementation is very good, much better than DivX4/5 and probably
> comparable to VP5. Perhaps their code is something that could be
> adapted? I don't know if it's covered by other patents, but perhaps it
> can be modified to output non-MPEG-4 streams while retaining the
> quality.

<p>I fail to see how you can output non-MPEG-4 streams while retaining the
quality of an MPEG-4 stream without designing a whole new codec from scratch
to avoid the MPEG-4 patents.  VP3.2 still sounds as good as any option in that
case, especially since it has already been gone over by patent lawyers,
presumably.


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Stan Seibert

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