[Ffmpeg-devel] Using ffmpeg libs in an OSS project is a nightmare

[Michel Bardiaux]

Martin Boehme wrote:
> Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
>> Rich Felker wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:27:21PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fran?ois Revol wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The use of more and more external GPL libs is also a problem...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which is a problem, 'external' or 'GPL'?
>>>
>>>
>>> IMO, external. If people want these codecs in lavc they should port
>>> them to use the native lavc dsp functions, etc. rather than linking
>>> external libraries with limited-functionality wrappers.
>>>
>> Then, "once more with feeling": why is such an important codec as MPEG 
>> Audio Level-3 (aka mp3) still using liblame?
> 
> 
> Would interest me too... I always assumed automatically it was because 
> of Fraunhofer IIS and their litigiousness...
> 
> Martin
> 
The usual thing done in lavc for litigious codecs is to put them under 
#if. And that's probably the reason mp3lame has to be explicitly 
activated during configure. It doesnt explain why an external lib is 
tolerated there.

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