On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:03:37PM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 15:46, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > And every set top box manufacturer pays for their MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4) > > > licenses. > > > > Those are the patents for the transport mechanisms. Still not the decoders. > > Sigh. You seem to have a talent for picking subjects for argument that you > know nothing about. Your talent appears to be argumentum ad hominem... > Go study the licensing scheme and patent portfolio for > MPEG-2 and tell me how you can get around the motion compensation and > prediction patents for example[1] or the alternate scan patents, By not encoding anything. These are patents on methods of encoding. (They also appear to have patents on various postprocess filtering methods, mostly in hardware; presumably the set-top box manufacturers license and use these as well). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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