Am Freitag, 10. Januar 2003, 13:36:48 Uhr MET, schrieb Yves Duret: > > 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.
You cannot reason from the fact that ffmpeg is included that there's no possible problem with that. > > > 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 ad_faad.c is the audio codec driver that links to libfaad, vd_xvid.c is the same for xvid and ve_xvid.c is the encoder driver. You still need the xvid library. > > > 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. I don't know if a disclaimer is sufficient. -- G�tz Waschk <> master of computer science <> University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
