[Openchrome-users] A bounty for XVMC on the CX700?

[Harald Welte]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:12:29PM -0700, John Stile wrote:

> Has there been any movement on this?

No, unfortunately not.

> For 1 year has openchrome support for XVMC on CX700 been frozen over the
> MPEG-2 PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE?
> This seems like a crime.  

It is unfortunately the present legal assessment at VIA that the details
about the codec hardware cannot be publicly disclosed due to the way the
MPEG-LA patent licensing works.

Do you know any other mpeg video codec acceleration hardware that has published
their register-level hardware specs and/or programming manual?  If yes, that
might serve as an example, helping to convince VIA that it can be done without
major legal trouble from the MPEG-LA.

> How many years before the license run out?

hopefully the license runs never out.  I think you meant to ask when the
patents run out.  I doubt you want to wait until then.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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