TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square371fedilinkarrow-up1500arrow-down112
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minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up87arrow-down2·edit-26 days 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-up1·4 days agodefault behaviour of Windows Media Player…
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·edit-23 days 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-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 days agobehold: https://lemmy.world/comment/14678864
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
minus-squareEldritch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days 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.
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?
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?
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.