Re: Better Video Codecs - was Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ideas..

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

> Well, ffmpeg is LGPL which means that you can link it as a library. Check out
> ther legal pages http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/legal.php
> 

Indeed, and OpenH323 has support for H.263 through FFMPEG.

> Having compiled ffmpeg a while ago, I remember, that there is a "GPL" compile
> option which means, that it disables all codecs which are non LGPL compatiple.
> I wonder what's the case with H.263 (which would be a quantum leap to have it-
> though it's not 264)
> 
> I also wonder how the Wengo guys and java sip-communicator folks solved their
> legal problems concerning 263. (these are open source projects as well - some
> GPL)
> 

I wonder. In Europe, you are relatively safe. The best would be to have
support for video plugins, which means european could use the plugin and
americans would have to pay for it, or not use it at all.

> Another idea, which would solve point 1 and 3 but not 2 above: use Theora.
> Check this out: http://www.tipic.com/tipicim - it's an open source Video
> Jabber messenger using Theora as video codec. Perhaps opal/Gnomemeeting could
> benefit. This would do to video what Speex did for audio - a decent free
> codec.
> 
> 
> Greetings
> Conrad
> 
> 
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