[MPlayer-dev-eng] "Convert your AVI/VOB/FooBar to DivX4 + VBR MP3" ????

[David Holm]

Hongli Lai wrote:

> It seems that you guys don't realize what has happened to DivX 4.
> So let me explain.
>
> About 9 months ago, Project Mayo opened the OpenDivX project, claiming 
> that it is an open source project.
> So Project Mayo gained a lot of free publicity and volunteers.
> But a few months ago, Project Mayo suddenly closed the CVS, stole the 
> code the volunteers have written, and release their own proprietary 
> DivX 4 codec.
> With other words: all those volunteers have been deceived!
>
> Really, I don't understand why you guys are supporting such dirty and 
> unfair actions.
> Could you explain, or is it just because you don't know about it, or 
> is it because you don't care about other people being deceived?
>
>
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1. I didn't know
2. OpenDivx is helluva lot faster than the win32 codecs
3. Well, it's not up to me anyway