2008/11/26 Gabriel Gambetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to compile the FFMPEG libs in Win32 with XVid support. I > succeeded in compiling the libs with MinGW/MSYS. However, I'm not sure about > how to enable xvid decoding (I don't need encoding support) > > I've found --enable-libxvid but it asks me to allow GPL code, which I can't. > Without this flag configure ends with "License : LGPL" which is what I need. > > Does ffmpeg have any kind of internal xvid decoder? configure --help > confuses me because it says > > --enable-libxvid enable Xvid encoding via xvidcore, > native MPEG-4/Xvid encoder exists [default=no] > > What's this native encoder? Is there a corresponding decoder?
Xvid is an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 2 but the Xvid decoder code is not supported in FFmpeg as far as I am aware. FFmpeg has its own MPEG-4 Part 2 encoder and decoder anyway so Xvid is not really needed but some people prefer to use it instead of the FFmpeg encoder. Xvid is GPL and as such using Xvid with FFmpeg imposes that FFmpeg be licensed GPL too rather than LGPL. I hope that helped. Regards, Rob _______________________________________________ libav-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
