• Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      No, this applies to the old mp4 codecs like xvid/divx. Mpeg4 AVC is still patented in some jurisdictions.

      • adarza@piefed.ca
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        21 hours ago

        haven’t used xvid in like 20 years. do still have some old ‘archives’ though.

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          11 hours ago

          Yeah… that’s why it’s allowed to expire now. We don’t allow people to use useful or relevant things! 😛

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    1 day ago

    This had me going down the rabbit hole of the other compression algorithm that has had my interest for a long time: Arithmetic coding.

    It looks like all the patents on that have expired… sooo, original bzip resurrection when?