new codec hdot264

[temporance]

From http://www.everwicked.com/forums

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"New codec: hdot264
It's under heavy development (and for developers only at this stage) and it's on sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdot264/

At the moment we're using xvid code and the JVT reference code and is just about stable enough to do a very simple encode and decode in Virtual Dub.

Next steps are to refine the hacks that link the xvid VfW driver code to the JVT core. At this stage I don't want to even think about video quality optimisation but I might go for some obvious performance optimisations, especially in the decoder - aim being to be able to decode in real time.

All new code is licensed under MPL+GPL+LGPL.

forum.doom9.org isn't working for me today - can someone post a link to or copy of this msg there?

Cheers,

charact3r"

[Koepi]

You can't just give away XviD as LGPL, noone approved a license change.

Regards,
Koepi

[-h]

That is true.

Why MPL and LGPL anyway? The GPL is compatible with JVT's licensing terms..

Also I wouldn't sink too much work into optimizing say post-processing - it is the most likely facet to be simplified before the standard is complete.

-h

[temporance]

Originally posted by Koepi
You can't just give away XviD as LGPL, noone approved a license change.

Regards,
Koepi
No, but you can add new code and do with it whatever you want so long as you release under GPL.
Original announcement
All new code is licensed under MPL+GPL+LGPL.

[MfA]

Still it is a bit strange, why make it dependent on XviD then? A lot of new code will end up in the XviD files, which he cannot relicense (he can cut his code out manually and license the result, but that would then be quite useless).

BTW not that it has any practical relevance, but the binaries will always have to be distributed under the GPL.

[Tommy Carrot]

I have to admit i don't really care about licences (sorry) ;), but i'm very glad someone started to playin' with the jvt codes. This h.26l/264 thingie offers huge advantages to the current mpeg4 technology. I do not think the licence problem is the most important part of this news,(because xvid is mentioned, and this is opensourced too).

[Nic]

Good luck to him...I hope he knows what he's doing, because the reference source is a bit of a jungle. If he can get the decoder doing even medium res at realtime soon, he'll be doing well :)

-Nic