[oclug] Fwd: [edlug] Rather Depressing

[Sean Hammond]

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From: Fergus Duncan <edlug at ziplockk.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:15:28 +0000
Subject: [edlug] Rather Depressing
To: EdLUG <edlug at lists.ed.ac.uk>



http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

"FFmpeg is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous
patented techniques it implements. Also threatened are the many programs
built upon FFmpeg, like the free software multimedia players MPlayer,
xine, VLC, avifile, gstreamer"

Fd

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