On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:22:02PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> 
> I have had this same idea for long time, and I would love to do that.

Please don't, a crippled MEncoder will not help anybody.  Note that
MPEG-4 encoding is already available through FFmpeg, but hey, it was
hard enough to get MPlayer into Debian.

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:10:13PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > I think mencoder could be useful to
> > recode a video from a mplayer-readable format to Ogg/Theora (or to
> > other patent-unencumbered formats).
> 
> recently the SNOW video codec reached a good status, it may be another option
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(codec)
> though I did not try it personally, and moreover I cannot tell if it is
> patent-unencumbered 

Who told you that Theora was not patent-encumbered?  Have you ever seen
anything to substantiate that claim?  Because I haven't ...

Diego



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