[MPlayer-users] Re: Legality of binary codecs

[gabor]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:21:49PM -0700, RC wrote:
> 
>>Nope.  The VC-1 spec (WMV9) was supposed to be finalized and released by
>>now, but it hasn't been.  Once it is, expect to see it in ffmpeg, but
>>then you'll still have to pay the license fees to Microsoft, so using
>>the binary DLLs might be a better option even then.
> 
> 
> Why on earth would you owe MS anything?
the same situation as with mp3 or with mpeg4...


gabor