One Codec out of the question
 

Hey guys, you want to laugh a little :?:
Please, be seated, because if you are not, you will fall :!:
I just got a call from Lygos, related to an E-Mail I sent, about embedding their Codec (dll) into an application (The KVCD Encoder).
They ask for $50,000 licensing to start, and then they charge ~$2.00 per copy I sell. 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O
I guess this is out of the question for the KVCD encoder :rotf:

-Karl

:lol:
hey karl,

don't worry I just found a cracked version on kazaa!! :mrgreen:

LMAO :lol:

I saw some in eMule too so you can save your $50,000 :wink:

I should to close this thread.
Read the disclaimer.

http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/i...2004/11/16.jpg

@Kwag: Yes, I sell it you for 1,000.

ROFL :lol: :flip: :rotf:

Oppps, I posted in a closed thread... :wink:

I maybe must to talk with admin.
Not only another mod reopen thread that I closed, in addition, he dies of laughter.

:cid:

Edited: Sorry, he didn't reopen it, hahahahaha, being mod he can post here without reopen, hahahahahah.

:cid:

Hmm,
Maybe we shouldn't discard Lygos so fast...
According to Karl we've had 7 new registered users on the forum, today.
Each registration is worth $2,99.
That means ~$21.
So if we wait.............................................. ........ 8O 6 and a half years Karl will have the needed $50.000 and we can see lygos running in KVCD Encoder :rotf:
What a bunch of a**holes!!!
They just wanna win it all in one day!...
Anyway I hope you have other options Karl, because this one sucks :lol:
:oops: posted in a closed thread too :oops: :mrgreen:

I have nothing more to add except it's my first time posting in a locked thread!
:ole:

What locked thread :rotf:

But laugh more guys :D
I told the guy that if it was possible for me to send a raw AVI "uncompressed", so they could do a little encode for me, becuase they don't have any samples (I wonder why :!: ), but they claim they are the best quality worldwide :!:
So I told him I would put a small sample on a FTP site, and I would send it to them, so they can return a compressed MPEG-2 sample for our evaluation.

Well, I'm going to make a little 5 second or so KDVD MPEG-2 sample from some good action scene, and send it to them, together with the raw file.
But I will insist that the sample MUST match the file size of the sample I am going to do :twisted:
Let's see how good Ligos Codec is ;)

-Karl

No need for that in the mods forum Luis :D

-Karl

@Kwag: Just was a joke. But I didn't close the thread really. It was another joker.

I thought you were serious :rotf:

Anyway, I have tested Lygos stand alone and the Premiere plugin and they're both buggy and look much inferior to Tmpgenc and CCE.

Did you look towards free mpeg encoders delivered by some University is USA ?

http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video.html#video-software

Sure did Phil :)
I've been all over that site :!:
I even tried the old "Berkeley" MPEG sources, but didn't have mush luck.
Actually, I would like to go back to the original MPEG-LA test model sources, the ones that YMPEG used for their Codec, and try to add functionality to it. That will free me from the ffmpeg/mencoder/avcodec sources (licensing issues), and I could actually build a true standalone encoder.
I'm sorry about the time frame I promissed I would have something, but there are more issues that have to be evaluated, other than coding, before I have something out.
But I'll keep everyone posted about new directions about this issue.

Thanks,
-Karl