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Re: [ARSCLIST] MP3 patent dispute
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From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
>
> > Anybody know when mp3 was created...and by whom? Runs in my mind
> > it was the same group that came up with "MPEG" condensed image
> > files...?!
>
> As I posted before, MPn and MPEGn are products of the Motion Picture
> Experts Group, with MPn being the nth Level of audio for video formats.
>
> There are so many audio and video formats floating around that even
> enumerating them is likely to fail - invention seems to come faster than
> documentation. One problem is that where the WAV envelope is now rarely
> used for anything but PCM, AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) can and does
> contain a wide variety of formats defined by their codecs. Neither WAV
> nor AVI is "defined", by the way; WAV is understood to mean uncompressed
> PCM, but in the past has contained MPn files (and others) and the option
> is still present.
>
Okeh...question answered!
Now...who is suing whom...and why...?!
Steven C. Barr