VLC & European Patents

[Albert Einstein]

CaptScarlet22 writes " VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened are the many libraries and projects which VLC is built upon, like FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software multimedia players, which include MPlayer, xine, Freevo, MythTV, gstreamer."

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[passkillah]

yuck! thanks to vlc i have no video codecs installed on my pc (no need for them). and if i didn't need to manipulate audio files i probably wouldnt need audio codecs either. i hope things work out for that group