[MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

[Julien WAJSBERG]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Arpi wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > the transcoding and M$ claims it owns that particular file format (go
> > figure..). If I'm not mistaken mplayer doesn't reverse engineer the ASF
> > format, but uses native M$ dll's to decode the format so it should be
> no
> dlls are codecs, the format is reverse engineered.

That's what I thought.

> > 'legal' to transcode from ASF to something else without too much of a
> > hassle. I think if M$ had a problem with mplayer, we'd have heard
> probably they won't like it, but as mplayer doesn't run on windows yet, they
> don't care. as soon as win32 port is done, we may get conflict with m$,
> it's the no.1 reason i'm against win32 port...

Mmm aren't there a cygwin port ?
(Once, I almost finished the build, but it failed on the final
linkage ;)
and you put some nice screenshots too. :)

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