codec support

[Don Kelly]

On 8/3/06, Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 19:49, Darryl Moore wrote:
> > yes, well those are just the ones I mean. I'm still not exactly sure
> > about the status of w32codec though. I've seen some sites which insist
> > they are a direct copy. Others which say they are not. Does source code
> > exist somewhere? That would be definitive. If you have any good
> > background on this I'd appreciate a link or two.
>
> win32codecs are the Windows binary DLL (dynamic shared objects) copied
> verbatim. IMHO they represent a license violation of said package they have
> been extracted from.
>

In fact, if you download the codec package from Microsoft's site.  The
included README file states that you must have a "validly licensed
copy of the client OS software".  I dug into this when writing a blog
post about CBC's use of WIndows Media Player formats:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2353.

Don Kelly/

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