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On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@greysector.net> wrote:
On Tuesday, 01 June 2010 at 16:53, salsaman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
[...]
> > What codecs and containers is LiVES able to process without FFmpeg/MPlayer?
> >
> >
> dv (with libdv), ogg/theora (although ffmpeg is required for vorbis
> encoding/decoding), mng (encoding only), animated gif.

I guess this might be useful then. What about WebM/VP8?

[...]
> > We welcome all new packagers with open hands. However, please check your
> > facts before going off on a rant and accusing people of spreading FUD.
> >
> >
> When you can show me an actual example of a registered patent which the core
> of ffmpeg violates then I will stop. Until then I still regard it as FUD.

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?search=patents

If you can provide a configure command that would produce a non-patent-
encumbered FFmpeg binary and a list of files that must be deleted from FFmpeg
tarball so that it can be distributed by Fedora then please do so.
I have no time to do this and even if I did, I'd most likely be unable
to find all the relevant patents and miss something. Until then, I'll keep
maintaining it in RPMFusion.

Regards,
R.


Sure, I can make a configure commandline which would only enable for example ogg/theora/vorbis and other free codecs. You could then edit (in LiVES):

ogg/theora/vorbis
mjpeg/pcm
ffv1 (lossless)
ogg/dirac/vorbis


and in the future:

vp8/vorbis/matroska (a.k.a webm, the new format from Google).





Actually we should get the terminology straight.

ffmpeg is a binary which uses libavcodec and libavformat. mplayer and mencoder are also binaries which make use of libavcodec and libavformat.

So what we are really talking about are configure options for libavcodec and libavformat in mplayer and mencoder.

LiVES does not use ffmpeg (except as an optional encoder for example for webm format, since the commandline options are simpler than for mencoder).

LiVES will make use of mplayer and mencoder if they are present to decode/encode the above mentioned video and audio formats.




Regards,
Salsaman.