[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:30:42PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> I do work on Nokia, on Maemo, and there the FFmpeg situation is also
>> pretty sad, as well as it's looking in MeeGo.
>
> I suggest you put alternative package repositories in place for the
> packages you do not - for whatever reason - want to ship yourself.
> It works for all other distributions, so I'm sure it will work for
> you as well. ?Just try it.

I disagree. The video standard of the world is H264. Nokia can afford
to pay for patent licenses and ship products with these (in fact, I
imagine it does this already for most of its products), just as Google
did with their Chrome browser. No need for the indirection.

Ronald