X264 Project Announces Blu-ray Encoding Support 139
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An anonymous reader writes "The x264 project has announced the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. In addition, the announcement comes with a torrent of an x264-encoded Blu-ray disc containing entirely free content, such as the Open Movie Project videos. While there are still no free software Blu-ray authoring tools, hopefully this will change now that video and audio are taken care of so that everyone will be able to make their own Blu-rays without expensive proprietary software. Additionally, it seems the Criterion Collection is a friend of free software, having sponsored the effort to confirm x264's compliance with the Blu-ray spec."
Re:The first question that popped into my head (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Free BD Authoring Tool: Multiavchd (Score:5, Insightful)
If you at least capitalize it (like "Free Software"), you give your readers a hint that you are talking about something specific, rather than 'free' in general.
It is still ambiguous, but it is better.
Re:Free BD Authoring Tool: Multiavchd (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll probably get hate for this, but I don't care, this drives me fricking nuts! Can we PLEASE STOP with letting RMS try to completelt subvert the meaning of a word simply because we are talking about software? Everything else on the planet if you say free it means it don't cost you money. If I say I'll give you a free stereo, do you ask me for the blueprints? NO! But RMS wants to completely change the meaning of the word when it comes to software.
So from now on I suggest Free= don't cost anything, whereas licensed free, or LF for short= GPL and similar software. That way free still means the same thing it does everywhere else, and LF means you get the source and can do what you want within the license. Maybe I'm off here, but it sounds like a fair and reasonable way to differentiate the two without getting into the "Free VS Gratis" bullshit that comes along anytime someone pasts a link to some freeware.
Re:Free BD Authoring Tool: Multiavchd (Score:4, Insightful)
Can we PLEASE STOP with letting RMS try to completelt subvert the meaning of a word simply because we are talking about software? Everything else on the planet if you say free it means it don't cost you money.
You are free to use the word anyway you want.
Re:Free BD Authoring Tool: Multiavchd (Score:1, Insightful)
Everything else on the planet if you say free it means it don't cost you money.
Only in your commercially centered world. "Free" has several meanings and co-opting it to mean only the commercial version is a political statement in itself.
Re:Free BD Authoring Tool: Multiavchd (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Concentrate on making a better open codec. (Score:5, Insightful)
would anything x264 only be considered free software where the shackles of 'patented software' don't apply
You can't patent software. Well, you *can* in the USA, but they seem to be happy to legislate themselves into a technological backwater. I hope the rest of the world hasn't left them too far behind when they finally figure it out.
Re:The first question that popped into my head (Score:3, Insightful)
You know who else loves it? People who, because of Blu-ray, get to watch high bitrate 1080p movies on their large TVs.