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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