Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered

Posted by timothy on Monday April 4, 2005 @11:28PM 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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Re:Look! It's a Windows user! by mo^ · 2005-04-05 00:48 · Score: 0, Troll

Why would you wanna do that. then youd have to realise that XP comes on a single CD unlike the 4 redhat disks i got for linux (yep, windows geek, linux fiddler, and happy to be that way)

Let the flames commence

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