Bcc to Avery Lee (phaeron at virtualdub dot org); I don't want to stick his address in the archives for harvesting without his permission.
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:00:28PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > Of course, I don't know the details of any related patents (and don't > > wish to); I'm only going from what I've heard: TMPGEnc had MPEG-2 issues, > > MP3 encoding issues are well-known, and VirtualDub had ASF issues. > > (These are all issues of patents that have been actively enforced, at > > least in the past.) > > I am looking for examples of such enforcements, do you have any > pointers by chance? One version of VirtualDub could read ASF files, and that was quickly removed. That was back in 2000, and I just checked: the news entries appear to have fallen off the site. Avery, we're discussing the current ASF support in Xine and Mplayer and possible patent issues. Could you confirm that ASF-related patents have been enforced in the past? TMPGEnc had MPEG-2 encoding issues back (reading the changelog) around Dec 12. I can't find many details, but http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_contact.html says "Because of MPEG-2 licensing matter, we are not able to provide unlimited MPEG-2 encoding function for free, thus, TMPGEnc (which you can download from this website) has limited MPEG-2 encoding function because it is free." I recall that being a patent issue, but can't find anything more specific. -- Glenn Maynard