owl_herd to 196English · 2 months agosony why ruleimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1186cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devprogrammerhumor@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1186imagesony why ruleowl_herd to 196English · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devprogrammerhumor@lemmy.ml
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoOhhh, format wars. I thought it was some copyright thing.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoAnd after the physical format wars came the digital format wars. Wanna watch this cool movie you downloaded from the internet? Better make sure you have DivX or iMovie installed.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoUnfortunately the thing about digital media is people can reverse engineer it and release open source codecs for free.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoOnly for people making proprietary codecs.
minus-squareSarcasmo220@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agothat doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.
Ohhh, format wars. I thought it was some copyright thing.
And after the physical format wars came the digital format wars. Wanna watch this cool movie you downloaded from the internet? Better make sure you have DivX or iMovie installed.
Don’t forget about RealMedia
Unfortunately the thing about digital media is people can reverse engineer it and release open source codecs for free.
that doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.
Only for people making proprietary codecs.
that doesn’t seem unfortunate at all.