All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

The problem is that VLC player does include a decoder (or at least it
used to), making it bad practice to use because they don't pay the
mandatory royalty and therefore they and the users become liable.  The
VBrick player can take advantage of an existing DVD decoder allowing it
to decode MPEG2 for 'free', or it can be purchased with a MPEG-2
decoder. By the way, the VBrick player now supports SSM.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Devereaux-Weber 
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:58 AM
To: Frank Fulchiero
Cc: Joel Jaeggli; Todd Needham (RESEARCH); Ben Fineman; Research Channel
Working Group; wg-multicast
Subject: Re: Joint Techs HD Multicast

Frank,

I do not think that the operation of the MPEG2 codec in VLC is
contingent on the presence of a DVD drive.

Dave


Frank Fulchiero wrote:
> Dave, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't VLC decode MPEG2 TS if the 
> client computer (PC or Mac) has a DVD drive installed, which takes 
> care of the MPEG2 licensing issues?
> 
> Just wondering if this also applies to HD MPEG2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank Fulchiero
> Digital Media Specialist
> Connecticut College
> 
> "a little fish in big video"
> 
> 
> On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Dave Devereaux-Weber wrote:
> 
>> Because of licensing concerns, Windows Media, Quicktime and Real do 
>> not include a codec for MPEG2 with their free distribution.  
>> Quicktime has an optional MPEG2 codec, but it is simple profile, not 
>> MPEG2 Transport Stream.  VBrick has VPlayer, which adds an MPEG2 
>> codec to Windows Media, but only works on Windows-based systems (not 
>> Apple or *NIX).
>>
>> Michael Wellings tells me that he can only encode WM in software up 
>> to 720p in real time.  I'll look at the docs of the Tandberg codec I 
>> am renting, and see if it can do VC-1 or MPEG4.
> 

-- 
David Devereaux-Weber, P.E.     

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