so you have all this stuff that is covered by various licenses.
I'm not an Apple employee or privy to any internal information, but I
have had to negotiate this territory once or twice.
On Mac OS X, Apple pretty much cover the decoding *and* encoding
licenses, except where that would be a significant cost (ie: MPEG2).
Particularly with MPEG4 there is a "blanket" fee where Apple pay a
license fee of a few million dollars which exempts them from unit
volume licensing.
On Windows, the decoders are licensed, more or less, but only QT
Player has encoding enabled (since, presumably, you're going to pay
Apple for a Pro license).
I'm fairly certain that nothing will change with QTW7 Pro, in that
the encoding abilities for some of the more expensive/strategic
licenses will still be limited to the Player (eg: AMR, AAC).
A final note: the licenses for much of the MPEG stuff involves
"decoding", "encoding" and often a license fee for delivery of
various sorts also.... there's a chart on the mpeg-la site
<http://www.mpegla.com>
cheers,
dean perry
abstract plane pty. ltd.
<http://www.abstractplane.com.au>
internet broadcasting, QuickTime Vdig for Windows, Vdig Xtra for
Director
On 31/07/2005, at 6:00 AM, Brian Raymond wrote:
I noticed the original email this was a problem on Windows 2000, I
assumed the reply was generalized for QTJ but maybe you were
referring just to Windows. I tested an AAC encoded file in QTJ and
it played fine on OSX so I'm wondering where the limitations are.
Do you know if these limitations are specific Windows or are there
potentially limitations on OSX as well?
