StarshipSoundtrack Challenge (July 2024)

[Yeager (Peter Vos)]

@Bloodbat

I wonder why it’s not enabled

Has something to with rights and costs, Andrew explained it somewhere some time ago.

Also

VCV-Recorder

yep, that’s it. Looks like recorder v2 also supports that option, it was just removed from the readme. Possibly to avoid suggesting violating mpeg-la’s licensing, possibly by mistake.

Got it :

Hardware encoding for video recordings

I would disagree. My understanding is that if the VCV Recorder binary includes an implementation of a patented invention, I would be subject to patent fees regardless of whether the product is commercial or noncommercial. The only question that can save me here is “If VCV Recorder uses ffmpeg’s h264_nvenc for example, is enough of the implementation of H.264 offloaded onto hardware that the binary wouldn’t include patented algorithms?” What I do know is that the first-sale doctrine means that s…