From owner-dmsdk@oss.sgi.com Sat Apr 14 01:04:36 2001 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3E84aI10726 for dmsdk-outgoing; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:04:36 -0700 Received: from tk421.icecast.org (shredder.sneakyninja.com [64.205.251.194]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3E84XM10723 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:04:34 -0700 Received: by tk421.icecast.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 033F710A84D; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:03:37 -0700 From: Jack Moffitt To: Michael Pruett Cc: dmsdk@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: available codecs for dmsdk? Message-ID: <20010414020337.H16559@tk421.icecast.org> References: <200103011005.CAA29151@nyquist.engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103011005.CAA29151@nyquist.engr.sgi.com>; from mpruett@nyquist.engr.sgi.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:05:00AM -0800 Sender: owner-dmsdk@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > 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.