On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 11:03, Rolf Dubitzky wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2004 16:11, Dan Dennedy wrote: > > 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.
Yes, but the world is full of opinions, no? I voiced my opinion for LGPL. We do heavily use ffmpeg and plan to use it more while also supporting the proprietary MainConcept codecs. Frankly, I think gstreamer is way too brittle. After what we accomplished in 3 months, it amazes me how long gstreamer has been in development with such poor results. Of course, that is easy for me to say without helping. However, I strongly believe using gstreamer would have resulted in a failure to deliver a solution and not being paid in order to feed my children. We probably could have accomplished what we need using xine--I did write Xine output plugins for my BlueFish SDI card :-). Another big factor is the decision of the development lead, and in this project it was not me. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdenlive/attachments/20040308/3e4d66b6/attachment.sig>
