On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:12:29PM -0700, John Stile wrote: > Has there been any movement on this?
No, unfortunately not. > For 1 year has openchrome support for XVMC on CX700 been frozen over the > MPEG-2 PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE? > This seems like a crime. It is unfortunately the present legal assessment at VIA that the details about the codec hardware cannot be publicly disclosed due to the way the MPEG-LA patent licensing works. Do you know any other mpeg video codec acceleration hardware that has published their register-level hardware specs and/or programming manual? If yes, that might serve as an example, helping to convince VIA that it can be done without major legal trouble from the MPEG-LA. > How many years before the license run out? hopefully the license runs never out. I think you meant to ask when the patents run out. I doubt you want to wait until then. -- - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
