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Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered

Posted by timothy on from the until-lotus-won't-run dept.

Alexis Boulva writes "Tonight, Ole André Vadla Ravnås of the Farsight project (LGPL), which 'is an audio/video conferencing framework specifically designed for Instant Messengers' for the GNU Linux operating system, finished coding a release candidate of libmimic, 'an open source video encoding/decoding library for Mimic V2.x-encoded content (fourCC: ML20), which is the encoding used by MSN Messenger for webcam conversations.' Ole, on the libmimic site, remarks that 'It should be noted that reverse-engineering for interoperability is 100% legal here in Norway (and in most European countries).' Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts."

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  1. First Post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG Firefox is teh exploitoitable!!!!!

  2. hardcore gayness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i like to grabaulsa

  3. QWNED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I Qwn u all. First post. OOhh yes.

    1. Re:QWNED by naylor83 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Too slow.

  4. Trillian? by Sandman1971 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hopefully the Cereliun Studios folks are aware of this and will finally implement MSN Messenger webcam to Trillian. It's the only thing that's been missing from Trillian.

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  5. MOD PARENT UP!!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is so irconic