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Vampire666 · 10-05-2006

The author of RatDVD says: "There are three main reasons I have my own codec. First, I needed to store many of the original MPEG2 features to restore the original. Second, I had this idea that a real transcoder would be better than a decoder/encoder approach. Third, H.264 and XviD (and other standard codecs) are covered by a wide range of patents and patent pools and I wanted to keep the program completely free."

Hmmm...I thought H.264 and XviD were free...boh!

http://www.ratdvd.dk/faq.htm#codec

10-05-2006	#56 (permalink)
Vampire666 CD Freaks Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Italy (Città: Dei mona e della Bora) Posts: 208	Re: RatDVD -The new shrinking technology? The author of RatDVD says: "There are three main reasons I have my own codec. First, I needed to store many of the original MPEG2 features to restore the original. Second, I had this idea that a real transcoder would be better than a decoder/encoder approach. Third, H.264 and XviD (and other standard codecs) are covered by a wide range of patents and patent pools and I wanted to keep the program completely free." Hmmm...I thought H.264 and XviD were free...boh! http://www.ratdvd.dk/faq.htm#codec