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

gabor farkas gabor at realtime.sk
Mon Dec 16 20:54:35 CET 2002


On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:05:18PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
 
> Giving up and using a crappy codec (vp3) is called losing. It's not
> being smart or making a political statement or anything, it's just
> plain losing. Standing up for the right to write any code you please
> (free speech!) is the only honorable course of action.
> 
> If there were a patent-free codec nicer than mpeg4, there wouldn't be
> much of a practical problem here anyway, but regardless of whether
> mpeg4 is better or worse than patent-free alternatives, anyone should
> (and does!) have the right to write code that can be used for encoding
> or decoding mpeg4 and to discuss, document, or publish that code
> however he or she pleases.
>

this is your idea of how it should be, or you think that it works like
this.

if the first one => i agree, if the second one, i don't. :)

bye,
gabor


p.s: as i see the answer to my question "how does vp3 compare to mpeg4"
the answer is "badly" :))



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