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. > 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. > 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, G�tz ? > 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. -- G�tz Waschk <> master of computer science <> University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
