owl_herd to 196English · 1 month agosony why ruleimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1186cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devprogrammerhumor@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1186imagesony why ruleowl_herd to 196English · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devprogrammerhumor@lemmy.ml
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoOhhh, format wars. I thought it was some copyright thing.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month 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-up5·1 month agoUnfortunately the thing about digital media is people can reverse engineer it and release open source codecs for free.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoOnly for people making proprietary codecs.
minus-squareSarcasmo220@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month 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.