On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:44 PM Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user < ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 19:10:38 GMT, Chris Angelico < > ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Do you realise how toxic you make the FFMPEG community look? > > To answer your last point first, either they don't know how toxic it > looks, or they don't care. It's been like this for so long that if it's an > elaborate trolling attempt it's a very, very determined one. Either way > it's horrible and I regret that it exists, but nobody in authority seems > willing to do anything about it. > > As regards the issue of release versions, the way I usually do it is to > download a statically-built executable. As a windows person I'd invariably > do this anyway; I have built ffmpeg on windows but it's a real hurt in the > hiney. There are usually executables available which presumably represent > "current git head" as it existed at some point in time. It's anecdotal, but > I've never had a problem with these. You can update at will, or keep your > known-good setup together for the price of simply including that executable > file. > > There are, as I understand it, a number of potential legal problems with > distributing that, since it is quite difficult to obtain a set of source > files that are known to be symmetrical with the executable you have. It's > even more difficult to prove that any particular set of source files are > symmetrical with any particular executable. Still, it seems to be more or > less tolerated on the basis that as a purely practical matter, anyone who > wants the source to ffmpeg would download it anyway. > > Yes, if you want to use ffmpeg you need to pay for each patent it implements. > P > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".