Regulas says

>> Why do you want to play a video on a PC anyway?

He probably visited the site on his PS3 as well...

Enough said...


I dont quite get the problem - corecodec invented the code, they want to make money from it, google wants to make it opensource, i.e. free, then inventor objects.

if google wants to let linux users decode H264 fast, then they can invent their on fast software decoder.


After many of years of development fully opensource video codec Dirac and its first implementation Schrödinger have been available as 1.x release for couple of month already.

And Dirac is designed to be of the same quality level as MPEG4 codecs.

So all who are fed up with proprietary videocodecs and all the mess therein should start using, promoting, pushing, ... etc Dirac and its applications.

"So, it appears that today the DMCA has won yet another victory while free open sauce had chalked up yet another sad death"

No, the DMCA has been used in an appropriate way. Google should have had the legal nous and common sense to have contacted CoreCodec before reverse-engineering their product. Instead, they broke the law.

CoreCodec has every right to control the distribution and income from their product. I have no doubt that, as the story implies, CC used the DMCA takedown in order to make Google do what they should have done in the first place.

Open Source doesn't mean "no pay, no rules", and never did.

<a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080505-corecodec-apologizes-for-wrongful-google-dmca-takedown.html">...not</a>

Next time you post a story from good ol' Slash of Dot, you may want to skim all the threads.

A linked to forum of CoreAVC (the company) had this official reply...

Update.... The DMCA removal request and the project reinstatement was sent to Google yesterday 5/4. I'd like to publically apologize to Alan for the disconnect between him and us as well as the disruption to the project as there was no ill will intended and we were already working on a resolution with him before this went public. Having counsel at times and what advise they give is sometimes not in the best interests as was this case and we thank Alan for his understanding.

Turning the focus back... there is obviously a general need for CoreAVC on Linux. Now we can go about this in several ways.

- GStreamer Plug-in
- MPlayer wrapped DLL
- Library version

We are evaluating the possibilities of each but we already have GStreamer Plug-in ready to launch. We are also looking at releasing CorePlayer Professional for Linux (QT Version) but we need to package this up for distribution.

Why do you want to play a video on a PC anyway? I know allot is the challenge of it all but Is that not why we have such nice LCD TVs for? My PS3 will do me just fine for any HD crap.