Re: [xine-devel] udp frames skipped

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Michael Roitzsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Don't know about RTP, just wanted to comment this:
> 
> 
>>As a side note, my boss contacted vbrick tech support and told them
>>what I was attempting. Interestingly enough, they referred him to a
>>sales person who informed him that MPEG2 compression is a closed
>>standard and that only commercial software may be legally used,
>>royalties have to be paid the the owners of MPEG2!!! There was a
>>strong implication that ONLY brick's software should be used to
>>decode their MPEG2!!!
> 
> 
> Of course there is a lot of marketing babble involved, but it is true 
> that MPEG2 is NOT an open standard. You have to pay money to the 
> licensing administration (http://www.mpegla.com/) to get the standard.
> 
> But I think the people who wrote libmpeg2, which is what we use, haven't 
> used this offer and wrote the code without knowing the real standard. 
> So I don't think there is a real problem here.
> 
> Of course the MPEG LA have already hijacked H.264 as well to preserve 
> their own existence...
> 
> Michael
> 
The MPEG2 standard document is a free download. At least I managed to 
download it from one of the standards sites without having to pay 
anything. Surprisingly, MPEG1 standard does require a fee...go figure!

I think that as soon as you start making revenue from selling a product 
that uses MPEG2, you probably will have to pay some license fee although 
I have never investigated that far.

Cheers
James