FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties
FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties
Posted Jan 26, 2010 20:52 UTC (Tue) by __alex (guest, #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.
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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