RealNetworks asks for hand outs [LWN.net]

RealNetworks asks for hand outs

Posted Aug 6, 2003 18:06 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560)
In reply to: RealNetworks asks for hand outs by robla
Parent article: RealNetworks launches Helix Player project

Difficult, but definitely not impossible. MPEG4IP, which is sponsored by Cisco to promote open standards for video streaming, and it works very well, and is completely open-source (codecs and all).
http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/

Combine this with Apple's open-source (but not quite free) Darwin Streaming Server http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/ and the great VideoLan client http://www.videolan.org/vlc/, and you have a more-or-less completly open-source, cross-platform video and audio streaming solution.

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No patent grant with MPEG4IP

Posted Aug 11, 2003 6:36 UTC (Mon) by robla (subscriber, #424) [Link]

You'll notice that MPEG4IP does not grant any patent rights. There's a reason for that...they can't. Cisco (the sponsor behind MPEG4IP) doesn't have the patent rights to do that.

Distributing software for which all of the intellectual property is yours to give is very difficult. A big reason why we don't distribute the source code for RealAudio and RealVideo is that it isn't ours to give. We've licensed portions from other companies (e.g. Intel, VoiceAge, and Sony).

Rob