new codec hdot264

You can't just give away XviD as LGPL, noone approved a license change. Regards, Koepi

That is true. Why MPL and LGPL anyway? The GPL is compatible with JVT's licensing terms.. Also I wouldn't sink too much work into optimizing say post-processing - it is the most likely facet to be simplified before the standard is complete. -h

Still it is a bit strange, why make it dependent on XviD then? A lot of new code will end up in the XviD files, which he cannot relicense (he can cut his code out manually and license the result, but that would then be quite useless). BTW not that it has any practical relevance, but the binaries will always have to be distributed under the GPL.

I have to admit i don't really care about licences (sorry) ;), but i'm very glad someone started to playin' with the jvt codes. This h.26l/264 thingie offers huge advantages to the current mpeg4 technology. I do not think the licence problem is the most important part of this news,(because xvid is mentioned, and this is opensourced too).

Good luck to him...I hope he knows what he's doing, because the reference source is a bit of a jungle. If he can get the decoder doing even medium res at realtime soon, he'll be doing well :) -Nic