On 7/11/06, Matthias Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Also ekiga developers are working on re-integrating H.263 support
> Where did you gathered this info? all references I can find on the net
> with "ekiga" "H263" and "H264" are features requests with the answer
> "No, because they are patented".
The ekiga wiki mentiones this at the "misc" point at
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Roadmap_to_2.2
Weird...
H.263 is also a former part of gnomemeeting but got kicked out at some stage...
http://www.voxgratia.org/docs/h263_codec.html
Yes, in 2004 and it was for a reason...
http://www.advogato.org/person/dsandras/diary.html?start=38
on the other hand:
http://lists.aarnet.edu.au/pipermail/video-l/2004-September/000581.html
so it was at least proposed to leverage the plugins system for this purpose.
> If we think H264 will be most widely adopted even for hardware phones,
> why don't we try to have a plugin system which would allow packagers
> to add/remove codecs without breaking the whole program? I think's
> this is the main reason for the success of gstreamer, and ekiga is
> going that way too.
>
That would certainly be a good idea...
Well. I don't know (never looked at the sources) if what Vadim said
means it is possible to have a plugins directory and 2 packages, one
for the free wengophone, and another for the patent encumbered
plugin(s) which would get loaded at runtime.
If that is the case, good. If not, I would really love if you can have
a look at that in the framework of this job.
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