Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 00:07 +0000, JGJones a écrit : > Since I use GnomeMeeting primarily for videocalls...it's main weakness > as you probably know is the fact that OpenH323 only use the H261 encoder. > > Obviously it'll be lovely if they had a H264 encoder. Alas, we don't. > > I was wondernig since I came across the x264 project here - > http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > > I release that it's still very much in very early days but for future > use, should it improve, is there any arguement against using x264? Such > as patents? They're reverse-engineering the encoder so that would make > it legal doesn't it? >
Patents are not on the code, they are on the technics, so it is certainly not legal, at least in the US. In Europe, it is still a bit "vague". However, there is a licensing problem. x264 is GPL, and OPAL/OPENH323 are MPL. GPL and MPL are incompatible. If we make a plugin, then it won't solve the problem following Mr Stallman because the program is "linked" in memory. x264 should add an exception clause for OpenH323/OPAL in their license. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ v_/_ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
