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[Peter Schuller]

> 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.

Admittedly I'm not read up on these things, but are the various
techniques motion compensation techniques and whatnot part of the MPEG-4
spec?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always believed MPEG-4 specifies just
how information will be represented and read by players; not the
techniques used to actually compress a video stream.


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