Hi! Recently, I have started working on the video(or media) redirection on this branch and have done some initial work:
https://github.com/llyzs/FreeRDP/tree/tsmf For those who don't know about this channel, it enables redirecting raw video/audio data to the client so that streams can be decoded on the client and play smoothly and seamlessly on the RDP client window. Now the topic. In order to decode wide range of video/audio content, FFmpeg should be a good choice. However, FFmpeg is a GPL/LGPL library, and it has GPL dependencies (libx264 for example). There are a lot of limitations in order to use FFmpeg as LGPL. See http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html Most Linux distributions compiled FFmpeg as GPL for obvious reason. And if I understand it correctly, it will not be legal to compile Apache-licensed FreeRDP if it links to FFmpeg. If FFmpeg is compiled as LGPL, that would mean some codec is missing, noticeably H.264, an this will be annoying. Please share you opinion. Vic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
