𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square360fedilinkarrow-up1503arrow-down112
arrow-up1491arrow-down1message-squareWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square360fedilink
minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up88arrow-down2·edit-21 year agosome new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…” manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agodefault behaviour of Windows Media Player…
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoLiterally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs. [Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?
minus-squareEldritch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAlways have been. It’s either included in licensing a software or operating systems. VLC ffmpeg and other open source software are a bit of a grey area since they don’t make money from the software strictly speaking.
minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agobehold: https://lemmy.world/comment/14678864
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc
“Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
People buy codecs?
default behaviour of Windows Media Player…
Oof
Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.
[Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?
Always have been. It’s either included in licensing a software or operating systems. VLC ffmpeg and other open source software are a bit of a grey area since they don’t make money from the software strictly speaking.
behold: https://lemmy.world/comment/14678864
I wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?