There's an article on linux.com ostensibly about the current state of the Theora reference encoder, and ongoing efforts to improve it.
It's a strange article though. It's misleading to say "no new MPEG-4 licenses are available" when talking about codecs, when the reference is that the ...
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The CBC Radio weekly science show has for many years provided Ogg Vorbis files on their archive page. It's been great to see them doing the right thing with respect to free formats, and being able to listen to this excellent show ...
read moreetbe I think the solution you're looking for is known as Digital Rights Management. :P
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We've switched the license on our JBIG2 decoder library from "GPLv2" to "GPLv2 or later", so it's now GPLv3 compatible.
This means, in particular, that jbig2dec can provide the JBIG2Decode filter implementation ...
read moreToday we heard that Diebold, infamous US voting machine company, shipped Ghostscript as part of their product.
If you work for a government that owns any, or work with ...
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On a couple of remote systems, I've been annoyed by line wrap problems in the terminal. As in command lines would wrap at a strange place, and then cursor movement is all messed up, and I'd have to count (not look) when editing a line.
Today I finally ...
read moreDeekayen, you're syndicating your Yahoo ads on Advogato. Not cool.
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I've talked to several people on IRC recently about getting the proper aspect ratio when encoding theora video, and wanted to summarize here.
The short answer is, when you're encoding from DV (or most other formats) with read more