[MPlayer-users] Legality of binary codecs

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:21:49PM -0700, RC wrote:
> Nope.  The VC-1 spec (WMV9) was supposed to be finalized and released by
> now, but it hasn't been.  Once it is, expect to see it in ffmpeg, but
> then you'll still have to pay the license fees to Microsoft, so using
> the binary DLLs might be a better option even then.

Why on earth would you owe MS anything?

Rich