Ronald Bultje (rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 20:32, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > > So much for that idea, well I guess I can use OpenDivX although > > > the last time I tried it with VCR it didn't work so well. Has > > > anyone else had better luck? > > > > Or does using that to create AVI files violate some patents? > > As far as I know, opendivx is patent-free (that was the whole goal of > opendivx, wasn't it? ;-) ). OpenDivX is an implementation of MPEG4. I don't know what the licensing situation is with MPEG4, but ... You can look at the ogg team's video codec work if you really want something licensing-free. Otherwise we just have to hope MPEG's contributors look kindly on all of these activities. -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
