[MEncoder-users] Patent free codec

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:23:58AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:12:29 -0500
> Julio César Carrascal <jcarrascal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's there a codec that isn't encumbered by US software patents?
> 
> All the raw codecs.  :-)
> 
> MPEG-1:  The patents on it have all expired years ago.

Might be true..

> VP3/Theora:  Patents owned by "On2", but they granted a free license for
> anyone to use it for anything.

NOT all owned by On2!

> Snow/Dirac:  Dirac was specifically designed to be a patent-free
> codec.
> 
> MJPEG/NUV:  Not very effecient, but safe.

Not true. These all use potentially patented techniques.

Rich