This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Feb 21, 2017 16:07 UTC (Tue) by KAMiKAZOW (guest, #107958)
In reply to: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state by spot
Parent article: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

I didn't see a fresh Fedora installation since a while (I just upgrade mine) but I hope your calender did not forget the MPEG-1 video patents. Considering that MP3 is the newest of MPEG-1 standards, video playback and probably even encoding should also work OOTB.

This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Mar 14, 2017 16:21 UTC (Tue) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (1 responses)

Is MPEG-1 video still used for anything nowadays?

My guess is it's obsolete, unless you have some antique Video CDs you recorded somewhere in the Middle Ages… ☺

This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Mar 21, 2017 22:26 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

It was a year or so ago, but I saw an article proposing MPEG-1 as the minimum standard WebRTC codec because it was newly patent-free at the time and Apple was (is) throwing a tantrum over VP8/9.