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H4CK3RM4N on March 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at...

Could this lead to a Linux distro supporting MP4 by default?

snakeanus on March 20, 2017 [–]

Most distros do to my knowledge.

H4CK3RM4N on March 20, 2017 | [–]

Fedora and the all FOSS ones tend to avoid patent-encumbered codecs. I'm not sure about Debian based ones.

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