On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 8:57 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com> wrote: > > There are two projects; saya-videoeditor [3], myvideoeditor [4] > > saya currently relies on the OpenVIP media framework..which uses ffmpeg. > the reliance on ffmpeg makes its nearly impossible to include in > Fedora. I can not stress this enough, applications which have compile > time dependencies on ffmpeg will be difficult to place in Fedora. > Unless someone figures out how to patch out the encumbered > technologies in ffmpeg, we can't ship ffmpeg. And even if we did find > a way to patch out everything we can't distribute, it may not be worth > doing because we would be in effect shipping a significantly crippled > ffmpeg library since ffmpeg does not understand the concept of > pluggable runtime codec support. > > Its a real shame, if we could ship a limited version of ffmpeg which > support unencumbered codec technologies we would have the ability to > ship versions of several multimedia frameworks and applications. But > the way ffmpeg is structured as a project and a codebase, makes its > difficult to safely work with. > > -jef Hello. I'm Rick Garcia, from the Saya video editor. I have designed Saya so it can use *ANY* decoding library. It's not hardwired to FFMPEG and not even OpenVIP. Since OpenVIP was made GPLv3 just a few days ago, I can do whatever I want with it, like stripping FFMPEG support. The OpenVIP library is going to be embedded - not just linked - in the project. Actually, I'm going to separate OpenVIP from the codec processing so I can implement file decoding via plugins. But my dream codec library would be one with a pluggable architecture, so people could add their popular patent-encumbered codecs to it. But it needs to be cross-platform (i.e. Windows / Linux). If you know one, please don't hesitate in telling me. Sincerely, Rick Garcia Saya-VE Project Leader P.S. Now, where do I subscribe to this list? -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
