On Monday 19 July 2010 21:11:48 Michal Svoboda wrote: > jtd wrote: > > gpl V2 covers copyrights, not patents. The writer of the code may > > or may not own the patent. The owner of the patent has to > > explicitly grant you rights to the use of the patent, In this > > case the MPEG-LA consortium.
It does not. > I don't see how chroot (mentioned by parent post) protects against > that kind of 'non-freedom'. > > > Besides, my (and several others) "tests" show that theora > > provides a better picture quality at a slightly more bandwidth. > > So, except for the case of compatibility with equipment not > > having theora, it should not make a difference. > > My own usage tests show otherwise. Picture quality is about the > h323 level plus theora has the habit of randomly stopping > transmitting video. Must be something specific to to your install. I have never had a problem. Ubuntu Karmic and now Lucid. Though trying to get ekiga working on lenny was a real pain. > > > Michal Svoboda > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
