Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:36:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dvdrip error Message-ID: <XFMail.20020616003609.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3D0C140F.7060104@gmx.net>
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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 <conrads@cox.net> 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
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