[WikiEN-l] Proposal for video format

Thu Apr 10 22:46:27 UTC 2003

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Eric Demolli wrote:
> Is there a standard video format for Wikipedia ?
> If  not I suggest Xvid (as efficient as Divx and GNU GPL) with Ogg/Vorbis
> sound any advice ?

Xvid is an MPEG-4 codec, right? "In theory" they should all be
player-compatible.

What's the patent situation with MPEG-4?

Audio is another matter; are there freely available players for Windows,
Unix, and MacOS that can play files encoded as your describe?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)