On 13. Jul, 2009, at 10:47, [email protected] wrote:
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 09:00 -0400, Mike Jackson wrote:
The only reason I was selecting Quicktime on OS X was that it is
obviously built in and there are no licensing restrictions on any of
the codecs that it supports.
On Windows there is already the wmv plugin which uses native
windows APIs.
On linux I wouldn't really know what to use. Due to licensing issues
I don't think you can directly include source in ParaView/VTK that is
GPL'ed in any way (which GStreamer and FFMPEG are). And the issue
with
FFMPEG is that is uses patented algorithms for its codecs in which
royalties have not been paid. See the beginning of this entire
thread.
To my knowledge Theora is free of any formal trouble, and sufficient
quality to be proposed for a default encoder for any platform, not?
-- Dominik
The problem probably is that ParaView is BSD-style licensed, while Ogg/
Theora is LGPL'ed. Now, it would be OK for ParaView to _link_ against
LGPL'ed code (after all, it does so by using Qt), however I don't know
whether it would be permissible to _include_ the code in the source
distribution. Some idle googling didn't turn up anything conclusive.
Michael
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