Ubuntu and CentOS share the same problem that the unofficial repos that
host ffmpeg provide very old ffmpeg versions. We have not found out why
the repos do not update ffmpeg. With gstreamer it is much better. At
least Ubuntu uses in their official repos quite recent versions of
gstreamer.
I don't think that the patent problem is such a big issue. Even if we
would need to pay (what I can not say, as I'm not a lawyer) I would
expect that it is not more than $5 per download. ($2.5 for MPEG2, $0 for
the first 100K H.264 encoders, and probably some more $ for MP3, AAC
etc.). At least MPEG-LA talks only about "sold units" in their licence
agreement and we are not considering to sell it. But even if we would
need to pay, I would guess that we will only have a maximum of 1000
downloads a year (does anyone know better?) so we are talking about an
amount of money that may be raised from some sponsors.
Rüdiger
Am 01.08.2012 22:17, schrieb Christopher Brooks:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 10:36:19 +0200
Ruediger Rolf <[email protected]> wrote:
ffmpeg can be distributed in a binary version. Because of this I did
Ruediger, I think we could host anything but binaries for
gstreamer/ffmpeg. Can these binaries be installed as dependencies from
other repositories? I know ubuntu has a repo with ffmpeg in it, does
centos?
Chris
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