Re: [tlug] Open Codecs (was Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT)

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Josh Glover wrote:

> On 20/08/07, Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
>
> > The whole discussion just lets me think - what are actually free (as
> > in beer) codecs and container-formats (actually - are there
> > containers that have to be licensed?) for music and video?
>
> Well, isn't free as in speech more important here?

Why?
I know that a codec that is free as in beer doesn't need to be free  
as in speech - would it work the other way around? (a free-as-in- 
speech-codec I have to license before I can use it as a *user*)

> Free container formats:
> - Ogg
> - MPEG
>
> Free codecs:
> - Vorbis
> - Theora
> - FLAC
> - XViD
>
> These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Codecs
> proposed by the MPEG should be open standards, AFAIK. Marcus, Godwin,
> you guys want to help me out here?

How about h.264?

Niels