[MPlayer-dev-eng] XviD Vbr Libary

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
 > 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.

Yes, I noticed a while ago that MEncoder would not compile with
--disable-divx4linux and proposed a solution that Arpi adapted.  So if
you compile with --disable-divx4linux you do not need divx4_vbr.c.  It
would still be great to get rid of the file to bury all that political
trouble once and for all.

Diego