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X264 Project Announces Blu-ray Encoding Support
An anonymous reader writes "The x264 project has announced the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. In addition, the announcement comes with a torrent of an x264-encoded Blu-ray disc containing entirely free content, such as the Open Movie Project videos. While there are still no free software Blu-ray authoring tools, hopefully this will change now that video and audio are taken care of so that everyone will be able to make their own Blu-rays without expensive proprietary software. Additionally, it seems the Criterion Collection is a friend of free software, having sponsored the effort to confirm x264's compliance with the Blu-ray spec."
You aren't free to use any definition of free you want, you know. Here on Slashdot, free means "free to do as RMS approves."
You must be new here.
Watch it buddy, I'm in the highly prestigious and arbitrarily exclusive 5 Digit UID Club. I'm 1.57 orders of magnitude less new here than you. ;-)
Young whippersnappers these days crowing about their 5 digit UIDs...
Pretend that something especially witty is here. Thanks.
Get off my lawn.
The more you know, the less you understand.
h264 has been used on Blurry disks since day 1.
If we're going to be pedantic, it's H.264.
And there's nothing else in the parent's post which suggests he might not bother spelling everything properly?
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
I hadn't seen a UID war in such a long time that I almost forgot about them... :P
Those youngsters with their retro trends
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