[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:01:50AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> On 14.11.2010 05:23, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:34:56AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> >> On 13.11.2010 02:52, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:05:50AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> >>>> On 13.11.2010 00:26, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> >>>>>> On 02.11.2010 15:09, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:23:56PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Personally I think it's a shame that FFmpeg is not shipped in such
> >>>>>>>> important distributions just because of this reason.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How many people here have even heard of meego and how many use Fedora
> >>>>>>> (on their desktops)?  Nowadays FFmpeg is available in all mainstream
> >>>>>>> distributions, it's just the fringe ones that are missing, see
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_distribution_status
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> BTW, if you have information to contribute to that package, let me know.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ok, here goes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> == Mandriva ==
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The packages in 2010.1 and later have the aac decoder and encoder
> >>>>>> disabled. The packages in 2010.0 and older are uncrippled.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone know why they disabled them?
> >>>>
> >>>> Because faad is not allowed in Mandriva, AAC decoding is presumed as
> >>>> unallowed.
> >>>
> >>> do you have some link to related discussion or a changelog for their ffmpeg
> >>> package?
> >>
> >> Here's the commit that disabled aac, but there is not much info there:
> >> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages?view=revision&revision=548077
> >>
> >> Here's a mailing list post:
> >> http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-05/msg00374.php
> >>
> >> When I asked why he didn't disable everything else as well, he said that
> >> someone should tell him what is allowed and what is disallowed.
> > 
> > someone should show him that patent about XOR or that one about clicking
> > buttons
> 
> Well, obviously he doesn't want to enable anything that hasn't been
> allowed in Mandriva, unless he is told otherwise.

hmm, do you also have a link handy to discussions that lead to faa* removial?
thats interresting because if its not patents but copyright issues which is
actually more likely with faad/faac then this would not apply to ffmpeg and
wouldnt be a reason to disable aac support in ffmpeg


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