Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-17 Thread Thomas Daede
On 11/15/2015 10:34 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > My understand is that Opus excels at lower bitrates; above 100 Vorbis is > better. Opus is always better - but at high bitrates, artifacts become so imperceptible that it doesn't matter too much which codec you pick, so you might still pick Vorbis

Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-15 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Haïkel wrote: > Besides, determining when a patent expires is not that easy and Fedora > Legal is backed by skilled lawyers that said the contrary. Unless Fedora > Legal confirms your theory (which I doubt), it's useless to discuss this

Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-15 Thread Naheem Zaffar
People have moved past vorbis and into the world of Opus. Even MP3 is more for the vast amounts of legacy content - most current content will be AACL. Saying that, as a no-lawyer, it did seem last time that I looked that many remaining patents after September 2015 were for encoding processes, but

Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-15 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > People have moved past vorbis and into the world of Opus. Even MP3 is more > for the vast amounts of legacy content - most current content will be AACL. My understand is that Opus excels at lower bitrates; above

Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-15 Thread Haïkel
Hi, You should have contacted fedora-legal list on that topic. Besides, determining when a patent expires is not that easy and Fedora Legal is backed by skilled lawyers that said the contrary. Unless Fedora Legal confirms your theory (which I doubt), it's useless to discuss this on this list.

Re: What's the current status of mp3-licensing issues?

2015-11-09 Thread Joshua J Cogliati
I believe that the current status of mp3 is it is patent free in the US and most or all of the rest of the world. Analysis after the quoted portion. On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:36:07 -0400, "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:47 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: >> What about US? > >