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I'm looking for an alternative to Mediaplayer that simply stores videos and might add rough edit capabilities, like Picasa does for photos. (Not all that jazzed about clouds)
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Given the minefield of patents on video decoding and encoding there can't be such a product. It's a long discussion why this is but as a starter mpegla.com is one such mine that blows up when a software author dares to add that video encoding.
Bob
Now if you want to do your research, find out how VLC Player got around all this. It's "verry interesting."
-It might take a little time to recover from the brief ad nauseum research into mpegla...I'll live.
It wasn't long ago the GIF copyright was creating trouble.
http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html
That passed and now we are repeating the same with video encoding.
Bob
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