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Don't say I didn't warn you: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/googles-royalty-free-webm-video-may-not-be-royalty-free-for-long Don't get me wrong, I'll be as ecstatic as any of you to see Theora and VP8 succeed, I just see the patent system as far more insidious than I think many of you do. Shayne

I really really do not like armchair lawyer discussions and this is just flamebait if I've ever seen it... --------------- #1 Is the submarine patent risk really that bad? (What's driving this) #2 Pragmatically have "you" even considered how to execute on this relicense plan? a. What if one of the copyright holders doesn't agree? b. What audit procedure do you plan to use c.

Shayne Wissler <wissler at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a program that is given a random file and needs to determine > whether it is Vorbis or FLAC. For Vorbis, there are various places > where I can infer that I have a bad stream. But for FLAC, when I call > either FLAC__stream_decoder_process_until_end_of_metadata or > FLAC__stream_decoder_process_single, it searches the

I guess you've all read it already, but here it goes: "All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other ?open source? codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn?t mean or guarantee that it doesn?t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source. Sent

Is anyone working on liboggplay, and if so, is there any plan to support keyframe-based seeking? I found this, but seems to me that the feature ought to be part of liboggplay: http://pearce.org.nz/2009/05/video-seeking-improvements.html Is there a more appropriate list to post to regarding liboggplay? Shayne Wissler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Hi, We are in the business of developing/productizing Multimedia codecs for embedded systems. Recently, Vorbis has gained good popularity. We are also developing it. But we face few problems related to patents. Vorbis claims to be patent free. Is there any particular search made for possible patent infringements and corresponding report published? We need to convince our customers sometime

Hi David, Sorry for the delay getting back to you, been a bit buried: On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:12 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> The TL;DR version of this is that I think we should discuss relicensing all of LLVM under the Apache 2.0 license and add a runtime exception clause. See below for a lot more details. > > I agree that this is a problem.

> > > > I’m still not completely convinced by this argument, given that the > majority of patent lawsuits come from NPEs. That is not necessarily where the majority of patent lawsuit *danger* comes from, and i'd argue, pretty strongly, it's not the most likely case for LLVM. > We’d still be in the situation where a malicious contributor could: > > 1. Spin up a

Hi everyone. Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries where patents on algorithms are

Hi everyone. Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries where patents on algorithms are

Hi radeonhd, nouveau, mesa3d developers, Firstly, thank you all very much for all the important work you do. I've been working as a part-time developer on the "Spring RTS" project (open-source game engine) which runs on linux (and other os). Some time ago I tried the engine on the open-source ATI radeonhd driver, which I understand to be partly based on mesa 3d, and all textures

Hello, I have a program that is given a random file and needs to determine whether it is Vorbis or FLAC. For Vorbis, there are various places where I can infer that I have a bad stream. But for FLAC, when I call either FLAC__stream_decoder_process_until_end_of_metadata or FLAC__stream_decoder_process_single, it searches the entire file before giving up. I'd like it to stop searching as soon

Hello, I've written a program loosely based on libtheora-1.0/examples/player_example.c, I would like to add the ability to randomly seek to a particular place in the stream (for starters, skipping forward or backward N seconds at a time). I found some useful information at http://www.xiph.org/ogg/doc/ogg-multiplex.html, but I was wondering if any sample code existed that implemented seeking?

Hi everyone, first of all, I searched through the archives for any posts resembling this, I didn't read all posts about the patents so if this has been suggested before I apologise. I read in an article on C|Net (I think, it was linked from Slashdot anyway) that Thompson are threatening to sue you if Ogg Vorbis becomes a success. Which is evil, and I'm also mad at them because they never

Sprint Nextel is sueing vonage, voiceglo and theglobe.com for infringing on VoIP patents. Sprint Nextel claims to have about 100 patents on VoIP technologies. Does anyone know which ones this article is talking about, and if so does asterisk have any of those features? The reason I am asking is that the article is vague, Vonage uses a fairly standard codec set, I dont know about the others.

> On Nov 1, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 09:16:47AM -0700, Chris Lattner via llvm-dev wrote: >> The goals of this effort are outlined in the previous email but, in short, we aim to: >> - encourage ongoing contributions to LLVM by preserving low barrier to entry for contributors.

Just a question about the state of Vorbis, if I build an application using Ogg is there a chance anyone sue me to death due to some stupid patent violation. Is the method used in the Vorbis compression, decompression and streams free of any patent violations? *** Frank M. Siegert, frank<at>this.net, frank<at>wizards.de *** WWW @ http://www.this.net/~frank * http://www.wizards.de

Hi, first post on this list. I run a small game development company specializing in casual Windows/Mac games. We've been using Theora for video playback inside our engine for a while, but we always run into performance issues. I've tracked them down to two parts : YUV to RGB decoding (done via software) and uploading the new pixel data to the video card as a texture. For the YUV to RGB

Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced[1] that they will extend their Flash platform to support the proprietary H.264 and HE-AAC formats. The Xiph.Org Foundation has previously contacted Adobe to consider extending Flash to support the Open Media formats Vorbis, Theora, and Speex. Adobe developers replied by stating it would be unwise as it would increase the file size of the Flash Player,

Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced[1] that they will extend their Flash platform to support the proprietary H.264 and HE-AAC formats. The Xiph.Org Foundation has previously contacted Adobe to consider extending Flash to support the Open Media formats Vorbis, Theora, and Speex. Adobe developers replied by stating it would be unwise as it would increase the file size of the Flash Player,