[MPlayer-dev-eng] VP3 license change

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Daniel B. Miller wrote:
> We believe it is better today, and the potential is there for it to be
> significantly better.  For instance, we don't yet have a 2-pass
> encoder.
> 
> DivX is closed-source, proprietary software, just
> like Real or Microsoft.

This is a bit misleading. DivX as in ProjectMayo is proprietary, yes.
On the other hand, ffmpeg is perfectly free and xvid soon will be, mod
some bogus patent claims that no one but suits cares about.

Rich