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http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Parrish" <cparrish@carlparrish.com>
To: "Plug-discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Linux and Football


> What is the open source version of real using?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 07:28, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 23:33, David Huerta wrote:
> > > Still, it wouldn't have hurt to have added a Divx file or something.
> > 
> > Uhm, yeah.  Remember that basically Divx is MPEG4 - which is tied up in
> > the biggest set of patents and everything else that I've ever seen. 
> > They're trying to figure out how to charge $0.10 a player for using the
> > standard alone.  Just because some people are willing to break the law
> > to bring that to Linux doesn't make it a good format.  Actually, there
> > are very few good, modern video formats for Linux.  Probably MPEG2 is
> > best, I think all the basic patents there have expired.
> > 
> > --Ted
> -- 
> Carl Parrish (cparrish@carlparrish.com)
> http://www.carlparrish.com
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> Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org
> 
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