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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoAnd after the physical format wars came the digital format wars. Wanna watch this cool movie you downloaded from the internet? Better make sure you have DivX or iMovie installed.
minus-squarebamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoDon’t forget about RealMedia
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoUnfortunately the thing about digital media is people can reverse engineer it and release open source codecs for free.
minus-squarebamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agothat doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoOnly for people making proprietary codecs.
minus-squareSarcasmo220@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agothat doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.
And after the physical format wars came the digital format wars. Wanna watch this cool movie you downloaded from the internet? Better make sure you have DivX or iMovie installed.
Don’t forget about RealMedia
Unfortunately the thing about digital media is people can reverse engineer it and release open source codecs for free.
that doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.
Only for people making proprietary codecs.
that doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.