On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:59:22 +0200, "Zeger Knaepen"
<zeg### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Good to know I'm not the only one using the DivX-Codec.

I was one of those who explicitly had to download it but do not regret
it the least!

>However: isn't DivX a cracked version of M$ MPEG-4?  And if so :  isn't that
>illegal?

MPEG is nor owned by M$. They have that .asf or whatever that uses a
limited version of MPEG-4 adopted for low-speed streaming video, but
that's that. When QT4 wasn't out yet (nor MPEG 4) I read a few
articles which pointer the latter as the most probable base for the
former. I've seen it referred to as a wavelet-based compression
algorithm as well as a fractal compression but whether any of these is
true I cannot tell.

As of illegal... come on, this is M$ :)


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