TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square418fedilinkarrow-up1538
arrow-up1538message-squareWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square418fedilink
minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up99·edit-21 month 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-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month 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-up6·1 month 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 month agobehold: https://lemmy.world/comment/14678864
minus-squareLongLive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agodefault behaviour of Windows Media Player…
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?
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?
default behaviour of Windows Media Player…
Oof