Comments on: Google shut downs linux video player after DMCA complaint

By: Unfocused

Unfocused — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:21:28 +0000

“Google shut downs linux video player after DMCA complaint”.

Eh? CoreAVC isn’t a video player. Its a video codec. Big difference.

And to those saying the world doesn’t need it, because there are alternatives – that’s true. But CoreAVC is the fastest software-based h264 decoder out there.

By: dagger

dagger — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:40:22 +0000

@21

Exactly, ffdshow/ffmepg has been around for ages. It’s also far more efficient at coding/decoding x264, hogging less cpu resources. Why do we need another decoder that does the same thing, but is backward engineered from inferior software?

By: Emopig

Emopig — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:14:58 +0000

Why would you bother with “CoreAVC for Linux” when there are Free, GPL’d MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264) codecs (both decoders and decoders) out there already on open source platforms, including Linux?

x264, ftw!

By: Ruff McGruff

Ruff McGruff — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:13:05 +0000

@19 yea, a real one … ur one smart guy /sarcasm

but seriously, i wonder who filed the complaint

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:56:58 +0000

just use a real OS not linux.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:46:30 +0000

This is the reason why i refuse to buy anything too proprietary. At least not too restrictive be it a hardware or a software.

By: budd

budd — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:24 +0000

piratebay should setup new open source site replace source-forge, & Google-code other such sites bunch of wusses :/
another DMCA abuse, people payed for the codec, now they not happy someone made open source code, because Linux is all about openness >.> and force users into crappy closed binary program and have to wait til they get fix it VS group community to solve/ & fix it

By: Steeve

Steeve — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:10:56 +0000

@ @cid

True True !!
+1

By: @cid

@cid — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:41:10 +0000

@14

Your statement, shows a real lack of any intelligence. Just because one is a Linux user, doesn’t make us cheap or unwilling to purchase items. I own every piece of software I use, and will continue to do so if the product is useful and satisfactory. I’m guessing since your here, that you pay for very little. I’d suggest you keep your simple mind to yourself.

By: Hdsgbfre

Hdsgbfre — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:58:47 +0000

CoreAVC are right that a bunch of losers in the bender lunux community think they can steal whatever they want because they are too tight to pay for ANYTHING. All Linux lovers should move to North Korea, open source utopia, you won’t have to pay for anything there.. Typical like the millions of english st george cowards.

By: NewzLeech

NewzLeech — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:58:36 +0000

CoreAVC.Professional.Edition.v1.7.0.0-EDGE
http://www.newzleech.com/posts/?p=86061

By: Jkr

Jkr — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:36:45 +0000

Not opensource = useless.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:33:36 +0000

Quote from CoreAVC Staff on their forums:

“relaxed… if you have been around here more you will know that we plan on releasing CoreAVC for Linux… and in fact its been done for over two years now. We are just waiting for the right time to release it…. same goes for CorePlayer on Linux its been done for a while now, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se_EY1RTO1c”

So basically they have had the linux player code for more than 2 years and never bothered to release it. This must make the guys at coreavc-for-linux feel really good about the fact that all the time and effort they put into their project was unnecessary to begin with. Guess the CoreAVC team just enjoys jerking the linux community around for their own amusement.

By: djfayt

djfayt — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:58:44 +0000

@9: because RS removes stuff when it knows its illegal or gets a complaint.. At least that’s what I assume the dead links are from.

My guess is that COREAVC thought that this project(teh open source) was reverse engineering their codec in order to work on a different platform. I think what the project is doing is simply making their existing product compatible with Linux. If the latter is the case I bet we will see COREAVC back-pedal like crazy and maybe even issue an apology since if the project was doing this then they would just HIRE those people to create a CoreAVC linux product.

Either way its shady for a software company to use the umbrella of the DMCA to stifle innovation. If this project was illegal I don’t think they would of hosted it publicly.

By: feedbacker

feedbacker — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:11:25 +0000

good one less crappy codec;

its time for open source everything