More about audio-video

[Colin Holgate]

MPEG-2 isn't needed to use DVD-ROMs. It is needed to play DVD-Video. The license for MPEG-2 is covered in the cost of the software that you buy for playing DVDs. You may well get bundled software, and so the cost is hidden from you. I think that each way of playing back DVD-Video will have its own license fee, so even though you paid for MPEG-2 to use DVD Player on a Mac, you still have to pay the $20 to be able to play MPEG-2 in other applications.

If you look at MPEG Streamclip as an example application for processing MPEG-2, it just will not work unless you have bought the MPEG-2 Playback Component, because they have complied with the license rules.


On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:

> >Really? My mistake then I as under the impression that this was included in all operating systems because they will need to play DVD ROM's.