> SGI intends that certain codecs be part of dmSDK. Codecs are, however,
> an area rife with patent and copyright concerns. We will probably not
> be open sourcing the MPEG or DV codecs for this reason.
Patents should prevent you from open source codec implementations,
although they will affect people's use of the code.
> If an outside party produced an open source MPEG dmSDK transcoder
> module, we would be very happy, but we probably would not be able to
> include it in our open source distribution (although we would be happy
> to advertise it on the dmSDK web site). If an outside party produced
> an open source Ogg Vorbis dmSDK transcoder module, we would be very
> happy and would include it in our distribution. We welcome any such
> contribution.
Glad you know about Vorbis. I just found this list (I'm the Executive
Director of the Xiph.org Foundation which produces Vorbis and Icecast).
Saves me the trouble of suggesting it :)
jack.
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