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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 15:05, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 22:23, Gabucino wrote:
[...]
> Although a message warning about patent status borders on the limit to
> religious fanaticism alá RMS and Debian, I think it's a good idea to
> include one. It will raise awareness of this whole mess, and might gain
> a few more people to the demonstrations against sw patents, whether
> such an event be in EU or not. The message should however not be in the
> form of an obnoxious popup alá the fun and frequent huge "Your computer
> is too slow to play this" popups that used to pop up every few seconds
> with the GUI :) Not a "Press Y to accept you're using patented codecs
> and might be breaking the law" in order to proceed, either. GMPlayer
> needs a status bar or something, or perhaps an OSD info screen that
> could be toggled, which would display the video codec, audio codec,
> bitrate and such info...
> As for the CLI, how about instead of:
>
> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
>
> display this:
>
> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) (possibly
> patent encumbered)
>
> And a FAQ entry explaining what (possibly patent encumbered) might mean,
> in some countries.
>
> A question, though, would (possibly patent encumbered) apply to divx.com
> codecs? heh...
all mpeg4 codecs and variants, no matter if they are called divx or windows 
media video are

[...]

-- 
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