On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:12:40AM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:27:03 +0200, Goetz Waschk wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > the latest xine includes support for realtime mpeg encoding to a dxr3 > > card using either libfame or librte. libfame is already in PLF, I'd > > like to ask if I can move it to Cooker. I don't know if it's possible to > > include the fame support in an extra PLF xine plugin without > > conflicting with the xine-dxr3 package in Cooker. > > > > What's your opinion on this subject? > > Since it is a MPEG encoding library, it is probably using MPEG patents > => can't go in cooker nor contrib.. > > But nothing prevents you to have a xine-dxr3-libfame which > provides/obsoletes xine-dxr3 package
If it's a piece of hardware doing the codec and all the package is doing is supporting it then it shouldn't run into any patent issues since presumably it's the hardware manufacturers problem. But I'm not sure what the deal is here. But from his email it sounds like he's talking about something that's being done in hardware. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
