- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:46:30 +0200
Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 13:28 -0400 schrieb J. King: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:13:17 -0400, Nils Dagsson Moskopp > <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 09:52 -0400 schrieb Michael A. Puls II: > >> Awesome! The vlc plugin has awesome performance! Way better than > >> native video implementations currently. > > > > Maybe the Mozilla and Opera people can tell us why ? After all, the > > optimizations in VLC apparently are all open source ... > > Certainly in Opera's case VLC being open-source doesn't help: the code is > released under a restrictive license (GPL), so unless I misunderstand the > finer ponts of the license Opera would be unable to use it. > Well, they can still learn from it, which is the point I was trying to raise ... Mozilla probably can't use GPL-only code, too (damn you, tri-license).
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