[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 19 April 2004 15:58, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer writes:
> > On Monday 19 April 2004 05:42, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > On a more technical note, a thing both Alan and Georg would love to
> > > see in the future are free codecs.  It's true, apart from flac, ffv1
> > > and MJPEG all seem to be patent encumbered.  We told them we are
> >
> > iam not sure if ffv1 is free of patents, i surely hope it is but i
> > plain dont know anyway, if any patented parts are found in ffv1 ill
> > replace them if theres some free alternative
>
> Shall I ask to FSF to help you out with research?  I have explicitly
> been offered help in this area.
sure, why not

[...]
-- 
Michael
level[i]= get_vlc(); i+=get_vlc();		(violates patent EP0266049)
median(mv[y-1][x], mv[y][x-1], mv[y+1][x+1]);	(violates patent #5,905,535)
buf[i]= qp - buf[i-1];				(violates patent #?)
for more examples, see http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/patent.html
stop it, see http://petition.eurolinux.org & http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en