On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:19:06PM +0100, Götz Waschk wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2003, 13:04:53 Uhr MET, schrieb Yves Duret: > > (Long time ago, xvid was not 100% GPL soft thus the plf place) > > Lame is 100% GPL, same as xvid. Still there are these patent problems.
yep, that's an another story. At the beginning, xvid contained some non-GPL stuff that added an another pb to the patents ones. ffmpeg has the same patent pb and is included. > > If you look at mplayer source, it includes ffmpeg, xvid and faad codecs > > in his own tree. that mplayer's spirit.. > > That's not true, only ffmpeg's libavcodec is included. [yves@klama libmpcodecs]$ ls *xvid* *faad* ad_faad.c vd_xvid.c ve_xvid.c > > But with this situation it prevents other apps to be build with xvid and > > faad support (especially vlc). Thus i am in favor to put in main all the > > original codec ie. ffmpeg, xvid and faad to get out this hypocritical > > situation. > > I am in favor to put vlc in main too, but that's another story and i > > prefer when 0.5 will be released. > > For transcode, we already have mencoder wich do almost the same thing. > > but building transcode won't be easy without some plf libs, Götz ? > > wdyt ? > > The main missing feature would be mp3 encoding support. But I'd be > cautious, maybe mencoder can't stay, as it can generate mpeg4. but anyway my purpose was not to remove mencoder, but add ffmpeg, xvid and faad to main. And there is a disclaimer in the mdk license AFAIK. -- Yves Duret [EMAIL PROTECTED] piouk toujours et meme apres !
