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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]