On Tuesday, 28 November 2006 at 16:14, Michel Salim wrote: > 2006/11/27, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx>: > > > > > >Bill Nottingham wrote: > >> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: > >>> qt > >>> Quicktime container format support, through own gst code (no libs used), > >>> this one is trouble some. I would really like to see this in FE as this > >>> adds supports for videos made with many digital photo cameras to > >>> gstreamer using applications (usually these camera's just dump a raw > >>> audio stream and a serie of jpeg images into a .mov file. > >>> > >>> So where should this one go? I really don't know. Can anyone help here? > >> > >> I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the quicktime *container* format is > >open; > >> it's just that most of the things put in it usually aren't. > >> > > > >So that makes 2 votes in favor of qt container support in FE, rest > >assured I'm only talking about *container* support here. > > > >Are there any nay-sayers? Should we pass this through legal first? (no > >please). Anyone who can give a definite YES? > > > I'm not too familiar with the QT container format, but here's an Apple > developer talking about parts of QuickTime that is patented: > > http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis-dev/2001-October/004846.html > > Whether the patent is still valid, or whether it's implemented in > gstreamer-plugins-bad, I don't know. [...] The hint track notion, (which I think is the patented part) provides a way to construct packets to stream over RTP by reading existing media data. [...] And he's not even sure about that. What patent would that be? Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski MPlayer developer http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
