samedi, octobre 11, 2003 On things close to your heart... Oh man, where on earth have I been?! An hour ago, I thought that the last revolution in video codec technology was divx (with its requisite bootleg divx:), as well as the underground RV9), but apparently there's something else called xvid on the market, for MPEG-4 compliant video. They boast the usual stuff of course - a better compression rate than divx, better RAM utilisation during encoding, etc etc.However, what's interesting is that on the official website (www.xvid.org), they only distribute source code - and the only way that you can get an executable installer file is when you download it from someone who has compiled it by themselves (with a C/C++ compiler like Microsoft Visual C++ (for Windows) or gcc (for Linux) ) - with or without further development on their part. This means there is no such thing as an "official release" for the codec. Isn't that great? Another thing about the distribution - they used to distribute the codec in binary form, which is a brilliant idea for software distribution. If all software were distributed in binary form (or perhaps even compiled source code), intellectual property rights laws would quite effectly be bypassed (for now), because the law is still very fuzzy on the idea of intellectual property in the form of a series of ones and zeros. Imagine what the RIAA would do if we started trading mp3s online in the forms of ones and zeros, with everyone having a compiler to compile these ones and zeros back into audio? Tr�s cool! [On things close to your heart...] |
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