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DivX and MP3 Developers Work Together on Watermarks

Posted by timothy on from the not-so-strange-bedfellows dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The DivX and MP3 developers are working on digital watermarking techniques together... Ogg anyone?"

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  1. Not surprising... by JoeShmoe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Step 1) Create a system or product that, while having some legitmate use, also enables a much more popular illegal use.

    Step 2) Gain a huge user base while fretting and pretending to "study solutions" to the illegal use.

    Step 3) Once your system or product has become a leader in the marketplace, throw a switch and make the illegal use much harder.

    Hey, it worked for countless companies throughout the ages. I mean, when did AOL enable the features that prevented users from e-mailing warez to each other, before or after they became the number one ISP in the US? So, it's not surprising that DivX and Frau. would be following the pattern like everyone else.

    - JoeShmoe

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    -- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
  2. DiVX is Falling Behind the Times by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DiVX is a very close variant of MPEG-4 and no longer has its source open. H.26L is open and already provides for 1.5 x better compression than DiVX. XViD is also about 10% faster and is open source and nearly all GPL at this point.

    DiVX will just fade away the same as MPEG-4 due to it's too greedy nature.

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    Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
  3. Why I'm not using OGG by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's really only one reason: hardware support.
    I can take my MP3s virtually anywhere and be able to play them, whether it's a computer, a CD player a flash player or something else, it's almost universally supported on digital audio gadgets.
    I like Ogg, I'd say at the [high] bitrates I encode at it's as good if not better than MP3, but it just doesn't have the hardware support to make encoding for it worth my while, it's more time-effective for me just to rip to MP3 directly.

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