From my understanding, libx264 is only needed for encoding H. 264 not decoding
it. However, if the system has a version of FFmpeg installed with x264 enabled,
there could be issues.
Sandeep
On 2011-03-22, at 1:14 PM, Marc-André Moreau wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Vic Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/23/2011 01:02 AM, Marc-André Moreau wrote:
> > If LGPL allows proprietary software to _use_ an LGPL library, why would
> > it be a problem for Apache-licensed software to use an LGPL library?
>
> Yes, LGPL is ok, but as I stated LGPL version of FFmpeg is missing
> features like H.264, because libx264 is GPL.
>
> It is still better than nothing, just wanted to point out that it's not
> impossible, but only has the problem of making the entire thing GPL for using
> a GPL'ed component.
>
> > In the worst case, if we use the GPL version, that would make a special
> > GPL version of FreeRDP since the licensing would likely propagate.
>
> Yes this is also correct, but if someone actually wants an
> Apache-license version, he will not be able to use GPL'd FFmpeg.
>
> How about we don't actually do the decoding ourselves, but delegate the video
> stream to a video player instead, that lives in its own process? For
> instance, we could write a VLC plugin that would receive the video streams.
> From what I understood, the current extension on Windows is integrated with
> Windows Media Player specifically.
>
> Vic
>
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