[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 11/07/2010 11:58 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>>>>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>> So it seems really questionable to me that FFmpeg is the place that needs fixing.
>>>>>
>>>>> It certainly does. Even if the SONAME trick is used, and there are two
>>>>> packages in Fedora, one would need to strip out all the
>>>>> patent-encumbered source code.
>>>>
>>>> If anything below a separate "special-Fedora" source repository is not
>>>> enough there's no point in discussing any further.
>>>
>>> It's not about Fedora, but distributions that don't want to include
>>> patent encumbered code.
>>
>> there are no such distributions
> 
> I guess Fedora, openSUSE, Maemo and MeeGo don't count in your
> definition of distribution.
> 
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=ffmpeg&baseproject=openSUSE:11.3&lang=en&exclude_filter=home:&exclude_debug=true
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*ffmpeg*
> 
> (I just found out that openSUSE doesn't distribute FFmpeg either)

it does not, but somehow a few clicks enabled ffmpeg on every of my
Suse installs for years...