[theandrewbailey]

> While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil.

Since MPEG-this Part that is hard to keep straight, this is the MPEG standard backing Xvid and DivX codecs. So let's encode video and torrent like it's 2002!

[CharlesW]

FWIW, Via Licensing listed this patent as standards-essential to several MPEG codecs (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266), and it's also listed for VC-1 (a SMPTE standard).

[p1mrx]

The openness of those codecs depend on the last patent expiring, not the first.

[CharlesW]

Of course.

[ColdStream]

Time do get out the old CD of The.Matrix.1999-DVDrip(aXXo).Xvid.

[anal_reactor]

I specifically remember that my dad brought from work crappy projector and I watched Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix that was RMVB encoded camera rip from cinema. RMVB was all the rage on my 128kbps internet.

[dylan604]

> So let's encode video and torrent like it's 2002!

Let's have a meet up a Circuit City!!

[xattt]

I’m not sure how to get there. Do you have Microsoft Streets and Trips directions I can print off?