Re:Just like DivX, except....
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You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Firstly, there is no ";-)" after Xvid. "DivX;-)" was a cracked version of a microsoft Mpeg-4 codec.
Divx and Xvid are two different implementations of the same standard. They are cross-compatibile.
Developer behavior should not be the exception in beta software. When it's released as 1.0 and not a technology preview, then it would make sense to default to something more user-friendly.
Why should I care what Moore thinks? Practically everything out of the man's mouth is a lie. His own sources usually end up disproving his statements. You're gonna need a better source than that to convince me of anything.
Firstly, MPEG4 is not an open standard. You have to license it for any commerical use, but can use it free for noncommercial use (for now). It is also patent-encumbered. So, MPEG4 and VP6 are functionally identical in this regard. I'm sure there are licensing differences between the two, but I havn't looked closely. This is the whole reason why the Theora project exists, made possible by On2's donation of the VP3 codec to Xiph.org and perpetual licensing of it's patents to the open source community.
It is also not like Sorenson because they signed an exclusive license with Apple, which made it impossible for anyone else to use it. VP6 can be licensed by anyone.
This may be true, but why use MPEG4 where it wasn't designed to go? I can't imagine it's that much better than MPEG2. And if it's quality you want, there are codecs available already like VP6 (which is better than H.264). I've already heard talk of using it for a new generation DVD standard.
The most widely used MPEG4 codecs, DivX and Xvid, are usually distributed with mp3 or vorbis for sound.
In computer games, those which don't just use uncompressed wav's for sound, I've seen Ogg Vorbis getting a lot of use. (Hopefully they'll use Theora for video when it's released, instead of that awful bink codec)
I guess my question is, why bother with AAC? Vorbis is better quality, and companies don't have to worry about licensing it like mp3, and if AAC ever catches on I'm sure it will be the same if it isn't already.
MPEG2 and MPEG4 are not direct competition, they are used in entirely different ways. MPEG2 was designed for quality, and is only used in high-bandwidth situations (like DVD). MPEG4 was designed for high compression, low size. It looks better than MPEG1 but is actually inferior to MPEG2 in quality.
many of their show hosts on Fox are far-right (Bill O'Reilly, Ollie North, etc)
I don't understand your characterization of Bill O'Reilly as far-right. Rush Limbaugh is far-right. Michael Savage is possibly psychotic. But O'Reilly is a registered Independant and will just as soon attack a Republican as a Democrat if he sees wrongdoing on their part. Sure, he holds many opinions that are conservative but he doesn't hold them without a well thought-out reason for having them, and will gladly change his mind if someone can give him a logically sound reason for believing differently.
I enjoy the way he endeavors to eliminate the hype of rhetoric of both sides and wish more reporters, conservative and liberal alike, would follow his example.
As Eric's website points out, an arrow doesn't necessarily mean source code. In this case, it was merely the compatibility between Linux and Minix that prompted the arrow.
Yeah, I recognized that map instantly. They took the Unix tree and made a few bullshit modifications to make it look like Linux was derived from the original Unix. Pretty pathetic.
Let's not sugercoat things. Freenet is slow. It's not a bandwidth thing, it's a latency thing--and I doubt that is going to change anytime soon. This talk of Freenet being "faster than the web" is just talk and so far hasn't happened.
I agree, you need to let your node run for a while in which case performance will increase. But don't expect it to be as responsive as your broadband connection or you will be disappointed. Freenet was designed for perfect anonymity, after all, not speed.
Freenet will run under a free system just fine. It runs perfectly well on my Gentoo box. The problem you're referring to is a problem with kaffe, not freenet. Just use blackdown until kaffe works.
Most people, despite what you may have seen on the internet (Caution: that's porn), do not want to watch animated sex of any sort.
That depends on the target audience. There's a thriving animated porn industry in Japan; considering how prevalent cgi is in Anime, it probably won't be long until they use it as well. America's warped attitude towards animation is probably a big reason why animated porn isn't popular here.
Thats not as bad as over in America. A while ago, Microsoft got in trouble for hiring people as temps and keeping them that way so they wouldn't have to pay them benefits. So there was a law made that after a year you have to give temps benefits. Now, the place I work hires everyone as a temp to start off and hires the best people on as full-time later. If you're still working as a temp a year after you were hired, they show you the door no matter what kind of employee you've been.
While what you say is true, lets put this in perspective. Computer games do not use Mpeg4 or WM9 for their video, they use Bink. In case you haven't played a computer game in the past five years, Bink looks like ASS. You can always recognize a cutscene has been encoded with Bink from all the blocky artifacts.
So why don't they just use Mpeg4 or something better? Waaay too expensive. Bink is a flat license fee, and then you can press as many copies of the game as you want. For this reason, I think there is a very good chance computer game companies will jump on a decent, free video codec.
An 'Ogg' is a tactical maneuver from the network game 'Netrek' that has entered common usage in a wider sense ...
Ogg is a larger multimedia project that does not only concern compression; Squish became the name of one of the Ogg codecs. For that reason, we usually just refer to it as Ogg when there's no Netrek context nearby. The Ogg project has nothing to do with the common surname 'Ogg'. Nor is it named after 'Nanny Ogg' from the Terry Pratchett book _Wyrd Sisters_. ...
Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book _Small Gods_. The name holds some significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
BeOS is a POSIX compliant system, so yeah you could compile the ogg tools all along. In fact, look here
for the Ogg encoder, decoder and Cl-amp plugin.
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Divx and Xvid are two different implementations of the same standard. They are cross-compatibile.
Now who's being prejudiced.
Developer behavior should not be the exception in beta software. When it's released as 1.0 and not a technology preview, then it would make sense to default to something more user-friendly.
Why should I care what Moore thinks? Practically everything out of the man's mouth is a lie. His own sources usually end up disproving his statements. You're gonna need a better source than that to convince me of anything.
It is also not like Sorenson because they signed an exclusive license with Apple, which made it impossible for anyone else to use it. VP6 can be licensed by anyone.
This may be true, but why use MPEG4 where it wasn't designed to go? I can't imagine it's that much better than MPEG2. And if it's quality you want, there are codecs available already like VP6 (which is better than H.264). I've already heard talk of using it for a new generation DVD standard.
The most widely used MPEG4 codecs, DivX and Xvid, are usually distributed with mp3 or vorbis for sound.
In computer games, those which don't just use uncompressed wav's for sound, I've seen Ogg Vorbis getting a lot of use. (Hopefully they'll use Theora for video when it's released, instead of that awful bink codec)
I guess my question is, why bother with AAC? Vorbis is better quality, and companies don't have to worry about licensing it like mp3, and if AAC ever catches on I'm sure it will be the same if it isn't already.
MPEG2 and MPEG4 are not direct competition, they are used in entirely different ways. MPEG2 was designed for quality, and is only used in high-bandwidth situations (like DVD). MPEG4 was designed for high compression, low size. It looks better than MPEG1 but is actually inferior to MPEG2 in quality.
I don't understand your characterization of Bill O'Reilly as far-right. Rush Limbaugh is far-right. Michael Savage is possibly psychotic. But O'Reilly is a registered Independant and will just as soon attack a Republican as a Democrat if he sees wrongdoing on their part. Sure, he holds many opinions that are conservative but he doesn't hold them without a well thought-out reason for having them, and will gladly change his mind if someone can give him a logically sound reason for believing differently.
I enjoy the way he endeavors to eliminate the hype of rhetoric of both sides and wish more reporters, conservative and liberal alike, would follow his example.
As Eric's website points out, an arrow doesn't necessarily mean source code. In this case, it was merely the compatibility between Linux and Minix that prompted the arrow.
Yeah, I recognized that map instantly. They took the Unix tree and made a few bullshit modifications to make it look like Linux was derived from the original Unix. Pretty pathetic.
Um, because that would be stupid? Do you realize the kind of computing power that is involved in compressing a 7gig movie down to a managable level?
I emerged it. freenet-0.5.2_rc3 is the current ebuild. Did you rsync?
I agree, you need to let your node run for a while in which case performance will increase. But don't expect it to be as responsive as your broadband connection or you will be disappointed. Freenet was designed for perfect anonymity, after all, not speed.
Freenet will run under a free system just fine. It runs perfectly well on my Gentoo box. The problem you're referring to is a problem with kaffe, not freenet. Just use blackdown until kaffe works.
That depends on the target audience. There's a thriving animated porn industry in Japan; considering how prevalent cgi is in Anime, it probably won't be long until they use it as well. America's warped attitude towards animation is probably a big reason why animated porn isn't popular here.
Not really. HP's Evo line are business systems, and Walmart's Lindows PCs are consumer systems.
That line got a raised eyebrow from me, seeing as Quanta Plus and Screem are not web browsers.
My mouse responds correctly when I rotate it. I have one of those Logitech optical mice with two sensors.
Thats not as bad as over in America. A while ago, Microsoft got in trouble for hiring people as temps and keeping them that way so they wouldn't have to pay them benefits. So there was a law made that after a year you have to give temps benefits. Now, the place I work hires everyone as a temp to start off and hires the best people on as full-time later. If you're still working as a temp a year after you were hired, they show you the door no matter what kind of employee you've been.
So why don't they just use Mpeg4 or something better? Waaay too expensive. Bink is a flat license fee, and then you can press as many copies of the game as you want. For this reason, I think there is a very good chance computer game companies will jump on a decent, free video codec.
An 'Ogg' is a tactical maneuver from the network game 'Netrek' that has entered common usage in a wider sense
...
...
Ogg is a larger multimedia project that does not only concern compression; Squish became the name of one of the Ogg codecs. For that reason, we usually just refer to it as Ogg when there's no Netrek context nearby. The Ogg project has nothing to do with the common surname 'Ogg'. Nor is it named after 'Nanny Ogg' from the Terry Pratchett book _Wyrd Sisters_.
Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book _Small Gods_. The name holds some significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
BeOS is a POSIX compliant system, so yeah you could compile the ogg tools all along. In fact, look here for the Ogg encoder, decoder and Cl-amp plugin.
What are you talking about? Japan is a signee of the Berne Convention, so their copyrights are perfectly valid in America.
He wasn't the director of the english version, he was Executive Producer.