On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Berk Geveci <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Stephane, > > There are two issues: > > 1) license - ffmpeg source has optional dependencies to GPL'ed code. > Hence it has GPL'ed code. Even though those are optional and we do not > use them, we cannot include them in the ParaView source. > 2) patents - ffmpeg has support for patented algorithms that we do not > have licenses for. As of ParaView 3.6, we do not depend on any > patented algorithms. Including the ffmpeg source code would cause > issues even though we do not use its patented algorithms. > > Because of the issues, we cannot include ffmpeg in the ParaView source. > > PS: We are now using mjpeg for creating avi files. > > -berk > > Berk, By "now using", do you mean "starting to work on", or is there some other flag that I'm not seeing to enable MJPEG video creation? Thanks, David
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