What is the open source version of real using?


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 07:28, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 23:33, David Huerta wrote:
> > Still, it wouldn't have hurt to have added a Divx file or something.
> 
> Uhm, yeah.  Remember that basically Divx is MPEG4 - which is tied up in
> the biggest set of patents and everything else that I've ever seen. 
> They're trying to figure out how to charge $0.10 a player for using the
> standard alone.  Just because some people are willing to break the law
> to bring that to Linux doesn't make it a good format.  Actually, there
> are very few good, modern video formats for Linux.  Probably MPEG2 is
> best, I think all the basic patents there have expired.
> 
> 		--Ted
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