MPEG-4 is massively encumbered by patents owned by Fraunhofer IIS. I wouldn't touch it with someone else's pole.
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org]On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 15:46 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal for video format
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Eric Demolli wrote:
Is there a standard video format for Wikipedia ? If not I suggest Xvid (as efficient as Divx and GNU GPL) with
Ogg/Vorbis
sound any advice ?
Xvid is an MPEG-4 codec, right? "In theory" they should all be player-compatible.
What's the patent situation with MPEG-4?
Audio is another matter; are there freely available players for Windows, Unix, and MacOS that can play files encoded as your describe?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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