From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jun 15 22:36:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net [68.14.62.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0123237B405 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5G5aA3m003885; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:36:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5G5aAmA003884; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:36:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D0C140F.7060104@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:36:09 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Michael Nottebrock Subject: Re: dvdrip error Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Jun-2002 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> On 16-Jun-2002 Michael Nottebrock wrote: >>> >>>Well the output modules of transcode are open source and thus, ported >>>and present. :) They depend on the encoders from DivX Networks, though, >>>which only come as precompiled shared libaries for Linux. >> >> Ah, I see. I mistakenly thought that was what the libdivxencore-devel >> port was for. >> >> Is Divx4 a proprietary format, then? I hadn't realized this. > > Yes, as is DivX5. libdivxencore/decore in the ports constitute the > OpenDivX-codec. > > It's all a little confusing: OpenDivX is an open source codec developed > by DivX Networks. DivX4 and 5 are based on this codec, but they are > proprietary and closed source. Xvid is also based on OpenDivX, but is > open source (the opendivx-parts are released under the OpenDivX license, > additions are released under the GPL). To further add to the confusion, > all these codecs more or less share the same API and OpenDivX and DivX > even have conflicting includes. The good thing about this is, that Xvid > output is (at the moment) compatible with anything that can playback > DivX4. Thanks! That's the main thing I wanted to know (the last statement above). Now, if I can just figure out what the heck is going on with Sun's Java site (trying to install jdk13)... -- Conrad Sabatier Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message