[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: Ogg encapsulation
Mike Melanson
melanson at pcisys.net
Mon Feb 25 17:05:01 CET 2002
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Petr Ketner wrote:
> this is from ogg vorbis homepage:
>
> Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and
> streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.
>
> This dont sounds much proprietary...
True, but remember the stink about Kerberos when Windows 2000 was
released? While Kerberos is a free and open standard, it provides a few
fields where vendors can add proprietary, app-specific extensions.
Microsoft used this field to make it difficult for Win2k machines to
interoperate with Samba.
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-Mike Melanson
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