[WikiEN-l] Proposal for video format

Thu Apr 10 23:09:12 UTC 2003

> Audio is another matter; are there freely available players for Windows,
> Unix, and MacOS that can play files encoded as your describe?

So far I've testted Xvid with silent video it works fine.

MPEG-4 is standard but I had problem with the FourCC code in an avi file.

MPEG-4 is an ISO standard but there seems to be some controversy about
patents, who knows more ?

With the Windows Media Player sound will work if you have the Xvid and the
Ogg/Vorbis codecs installed
With Linux it depend which player you use but the best one are now codec
compatible with  Windows
With a Mac well I don't know....

Who can clarify the MPEG-4 patent issue ?

See http://www.xvid.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brion Vibber" <vibber at aludra.usc.edu>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal for video format

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Eric Demolli wrote:
> > Is there a standard video format for Wikipedia ?
> > If  not I suggest Xvid (as efficient as Divx and GNU GPL) with
Ogg/Vorbis
> > sound any advice ?
>
> Xvid is an MPEG-4 codec, right? "In theory" they should all be
> player-compatible.
>
> What's the patent situation with MPEG-4?
>
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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