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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:49:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 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

Well supposedly divx.com has a _license_ for the patent, meaning that
no one will challenge your rights to use it to play movies. But this
doesn't change the fact that numerous (invalid by obviousness and
prior art, but still standing) patents apply to mpeg4 (and all other
codecs) and thus make it "patent-encumbered".

Rich