The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another
codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced
Video Coding standards. Unfortunately, these are patent encumbered in at
least the USA, and many other countries. To distribute code implementing
any of these pa
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote:
> > The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another
> > codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced
> > Video Coding standards. Unfortunately, these
Oops,
My mistake libavcodec is not using libx264, but it's own AVC decoder,
and the FAA{C,D} code is an interface only.
Matthew W. S. Bell
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So given my idiocy I'm going to leave that detective work to someone
else. I think the general picture is slightly more clear than opaque now
though.
MWSBell
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> So given my idiocy I'm going to leave that detective work to someone
> else. I think the general picture is slightly more clear than opaque now
> though.
>
> MWSBell
I mean with respect to looking in packages to find out if they have a
coder or a decoder.
So, we have a document that supports
> OTOH, it looks like these packages currently in Debian do have upstreams,
> against whom the patents have not been enforced, correct? Do we know of
> *anyone* who's been C&D'ed specifically for distributing a *subset* of the
> code in these packages? If not, it sounds like the lack of enforcem
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