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VP3, Open Source Video at 200kbs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lower-bitrate-pr0n dept.

Honest Man noted that intel is hyping VP3 as the first low bitrate open source video codec. 200kbs for VHS quality video sounds good to me, especially when I can apt-get it. But is DivX already to entrenched in this niche?

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  1. Re:optimized for P4? by barawn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "low bandwidth, high quality, low processing power" is completely impossible. Bandwidth+quality equates into space, and processing power equates into time. There's always going to be a trade off between time and space.

  2. *Not* Open Source *or* Free Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Redundant

    Consider this pice:

    (e) Notwithstanding Sections 2.1 (a), (b), and (c) above, no license is granted to You, under any intellectual property rights including patent
    rights, to modify the code in such a way as to create or accept data that is incompatible with data produced or accepted by the Original Code.

    Yeah, that's real fucking useful -- we can view the code, but we can't improve it (incompatibly).

    This is the problem with the "Open Source" movement -- it's become such a buzzword that morons like VP3 think they can make up licenses like these.