[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] (mencoder) lavc option "notch_matrix"

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:24:02AM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Included is a patch to add the lavc (encoding) option "notch_matrix".
> > (The KVCD "Notch" Quantization Matrix)
> > 
> > So you can use: 
> > mencoder -voc lavc -lavcops notch_matrix
> The main problem of this is that it's not free...and it's license is not
> compatible with the GPL, so we aren't allowed to include, that's why
> I've settled to the way below. (see http://kvcd.net/, if anyone who
> understands GPL and law better, please have a look at it, if it's legal
> to include with GPL, I1m not against it)

IMO this is nonsense. Coefficients needed for encoding are not
themselves copyrightable; only the actual publication in which they
originally appeared is under copyright.

Rich