[MPlayer-dev-eng] XviD Vbr Libary

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:32:16PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:27:53PM +0200, Clemens Wächter wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:09:02 +0200 (CEST)
> > Christoph Lampert <chl at math.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > If you use it now, be aware of that. For the moment, the main
> > > advantage, is that it's 100% GPL.
> > > If divx4_vbr.c is still the one I "wrote" long ago, that still has
> > > OpenDivX license code in it. 
> > 
> > Now that is interesting. Diego asked for volunteers some days ago to
> > reimplement it to solve these licensing issues. I decided to have
> > a deep look into it and try to do the reimplementation. 
> 
> Just to clarify this: In a perfect world, we would have a new
> divx4_vbr.c for the 0.90 release and then hopefully be included in many
> distributions.

Isn't that file omitted now anyway if you compile without the
Divx4Linux junk? (You prolly have to omit XVID too but that's not
really a big deal.) Anyway it seems distro vendors could leave that
stuff out with no problem.

Rich