On 09/04/14 03:42, Deke Kincaid wrote:
What are the plans for approaching Quicktime codec support on Linux (audio and
video)? It’s a problem I hate thinking about, but it will come up.
No plans for the immediate future as far as I know. Even Autodesk has
to work around this by using a Mac to convert the files to dpx in order
for the Linux box to read it (via wiretap). There are lots of legal
issues with QuickTime which we are weary to touch (ie libavcodec reverse
engineers prores which is technically illegal in the US via DMCA). Also
we start running into lots of patent licenses we would have to pay for
even if it is an open source library (using QuickTime on Win/Mac lets
us bypass lots of this).
Apparently Davinci Resolve managed to fix this and have now licensed
prores on Linux. (most likely through libavcodec.
Hilsen
Jimmy Christensen
Developer
Ghost A/S
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