[WikiEN-l] Tech help: Video format conversion

[Nathan]

I'm not understanding why specifically OGG/Thora (because it's free? 
Still, why?). As long as anything can play it, that should be the aim, 
hmm? 

- Nathan

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On 7/21/06, Nathan <lists at home.nathanr.com> wrote:
> > When last I checked, the XviD codec (AVI) was free and open source.
> 
> The XviD codec is very much patent encumbered. No free mpeg4 codec can
> exist in the near future. The situation for XviD is actually much
> worse than MP3. mpeg4 codec licensing is a huge expensive mess.
> Fortunately Theora has competitive quality/bitrate with mpeg4.
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