alt Hacker News> While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil.
Since MPEG-this Part that is hard to keep straight, this is the MPEG standard backing Xvid and DivX codecs. So let's encode video and torrent like it's 2002!
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ColdStream • yesterday at 1:47 AM
Time do get out the old CD of The.Matrix.1999-DVDrip(aXXo).Xvid.
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dylan604 • last Sunday at 8:54 PM
> So let's encode video and torrent like it's 2002!
Let's have a meet up a Circuit City!!
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FWIW, Via Licensing listed this patent as standards-essential to several MPEG codecs (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266), and it's also listed for VC-1 (a SMPTE standard).