[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorenson 3 encoding :)))))

[Balatoni Denes]

Hi!

www.mpegla.com would have licensing information, if it was posted on the site.
There are however some drafts in the news section (like $0.25/decoder, capped 
at $100000, $0.75/encoder iirc).
Also it was a slashdot news article, that thomson is not licensing mp3 for 
free to open source software. This was denied by thomson a day later - 
however the sentence about this special free licensing has been removed from
www.mp3licensing.com and never put back.

But hopefully they don't care about mplayer/ffmpeg, as it was said before me.
And hopefully xvid is kind of legal. And xiph.org will come up with something 
great soon maybe, and we can all forget about patents.

I am not a lawyer by the way

bye
Denes


> > But the ffmpeg/xvid/etc people could be in trouble but I think that
> > Mpeg comitee doesn't know them or ignores them. So maybe its not
> > right but no one cares. Hope this stays like this. But if this changes
> > I pitty them.
>
> i hoped that they will act like frauenhofer does ( they don't ask
> license fees from non-profit projects ),
> but this mail clearly states that it's not the case for mpeg4 :(((
>
> but i hope they'll change :)
>
> gabor