[gst-devel] Can a MPEG-1 with Audio Layers 1&2 plugin be in plugins-good (patentwise)?
Gabriel Bouvigne
gabriel.bouvigne at joost.com
Wed Aug 27 12:25:06 CEST 2008
David Schleef a écrit :
> MPEG-1 audio layer 2 has never been patent encumbered, encoding or
> decoding. There just isn't a good library that has been wrapped.
Mpeg-1 audio Layer II is covered by some Patents from Philips (and
possibly other companies, Philips is just the one that immediately came
to my mind), and Mpeg-2 Layer II even more.
There was not much public noise about them because it was not
commercially worth it and it was better to use those patents to gather
fees/settlements from Layer III implementors/sellers/distributors.
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Gabriel
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