One of the 3ivx developers ("Stux") posts on this forum, for what it's worth.
As for Project Mayo, I just meant they're vaporware so far. I certainly hope we see something solid (and legal) from them in the future.
One thing I'm wondering about: where's Apple? One would think they have everything to gain from making an open, cross-platform, true-MPEG4 codec that could displace the proprietary MS stuff...
3ivx is not Open Source yet, but they hope to make the decoder OSS eventually. The encoder may never be OSS due to MPEG4 patent issues. The MPEG4 patent people probably won't announce their license policies until Spring.
3ivx uses QuickTime because it's cross-platform and it's the official MPEG4 packaging format.
3ivx isn't truely MPEG4 yet -- that's a longterm goal. Of course, DivX;-) isn't really MPEG4 either, and neither are any of the MS codecs.
It's just an early preview release so far. Obviously 3ivx needs major performance improvements, not to mention a sound layer, before it will be able to compete. But the developers seem confident they will get there.
DivX;-) is probably illegal. Project Mayo is still vaporware. OpenCodex is MIA. MS's stuff is limited to Windows (and maybe Mac). So I'm not writing 3ivx off just yet.
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One of the 3ivx developers ("Stux") posts on this forum, for what it's worth.
As for Project Mayo, I just meant they're vaporware so far. I certainly hope we see something solid (and legal) from them in the future.
One thing I'm wondering about: where's Apple? One would think they have everything to gain from making an open, cross-platform, true-MPEG4 codec that could displace the proprietary MS stuff...
3ivx is not Open Source yet, but they hope to make the decoder OSS eventually. The encoder may never be OSS due to MPEG4 patent issues. The MPEG4 patent people probably won't announce their license policies until Spring.
;-) isn't really MPEG4 either, and neither are any of the MS codecs.
;-) is probably illegal. Project Mayo is still vaporware. OpenCodex is MIA. MS's stuff is limited to Windows (and maybe Mac). So I'm not writing 3ivx off just yet.
3ivx uses QuickTime because it's cross-platform and it's the official MPEG4 packaging format.
3ivx isn't truely MPEG4 yet -- that's a longterm goal. Of course, DivX
It's just an early preview release so far. Obviously 3ivx needs major performance improvements, not to mention a sound layer, before it will be able to compete. But the developers seem confident they will get there.
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