FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties [LWN.net]

FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 26, 2010 20:52 UTC (Tue) by __alex (subscriber, #38036)
In reply to: FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties by DonDiego
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

My apologies you are right. Debian merely disables the H.264 encoder not the
decoder.

http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-
multimedia/ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/README.Debian;hb=9f02f559
4fe25fdda9e409f987841b3be2272db4

>Currently the following video encoders are disabled in the ffmpeg package:
>H263, H264, MPEG2 video, MPEG4 and MS-MPEG4. No *decoders* are
>disabled in any the ffmpeg package!

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FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 26, 2010 21:24 UTC (Tue) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

> My apologies you are right. Debian merely disables the H.264
> encoder not the decoder.

BTW, this is completely irrational. The MPEG-LA charges the same amount for encoders as it does for decoders.

FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 27, 2010 0:54 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Debian's policy is to ignore patents until there is evidence that patent holders are forcing people to pay up.