[MPlayer-users] Fwd: [Ffmpeg-devel] XVID development stopped

[gabor]

maybe i don't understand something,but:

this should be sigma-designs's problem not xvid's !!

or this is simply about sigma-design=>more-money=>better-lawyers?

thanks,
gabor

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 17:49, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> worth to check...
> 
> --------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Christoph Lampert <chl at math.uni-bonn.de>
> To: ffmpeg-devel at sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Ffmpeg-devel] XVID development stopped
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am sad to tell you that at the moment, you are the only real open source
> project for MPEG-4 left.
> 
> XVID has stopped its development because of severe license and copyright
> trouble with Sigma Designs. You can find information on www.xvid.org, or
> at slashdot, theinquirer.net and other sites by now. 
> The story in short is 
> 
> Sigma Designs REALmagic MPEG-4 = XviD (at least important parts of it).
> 
> and they even admitted it in an email to us!!!
> 
> For version v1.1 they changed some of the code, some of ours seems to be 
> replaced (still much is left) so maybe you should look into their codec,
> if your code has been used, too, now...
> 
> Christoph
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