On Monday 08 March 2004 16:11, Dan Dennedy wrote: > Sigh, now for some troubling news :-/. After all my trumpeting, we might > abandon SMIL.
That is no problem for us. At least not for me. When we talk here about "SMIL" we actually are only meaning the names of a handfull of tags, and, frankly, I give sh*t what they are called. This has nothing much to do with SMIL anyway. It's at most 3% of the namespace. > I think you already know--at least Jason--that we were > contracted to develop a new video playout server that can all do all > sorts of realtime effects and output uncompressed over SDI. We could not > use piave because the customer wanted a pure C implementation with the > option to license the core framework BSD. The license issue as well as > other factors ruled out consideration of other things like gstreamer or > xine as well. Therefore, we created yet another new media framework. This is of course a very stupid thing to do (I guess you would agree, but you have to pay the rent somehow, I know;-) and I personally find it very unfortunate for linux and OSS, because I am _very_ much in support of (L)GPL. In what whay (other than license) is you playout server different to GStreamer/ffmpeg/nmm/videoLAN ? Why would anybody choose the BSD license over LGPL, other than planning to make further development proprietary? Unfortunate. Cheers, Rolf -- contacts: www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~dubitzky
