[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel-old] why not have h264 encoder in the libavcodec?

[Maarten Daniels]

Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> 
> On 8-nov-2005, at 11:03, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/8/05, andy <quanjianzhong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> why not have h264 encoder in the libavcodec?
>>>
>>> because there's the x264 project: http://developers.videolan.org/ 
>>> x264.html
>>
>>
>> Which has the wrong license.
> 
> 
> You mean:
> Which has a license not allowing me to use this code in my commercial  
> program.
> 
> So far nobody has been kind enough I guess to write a libavcodec LGPL  
> version of the encoder.

Is it necessary that the whole encoder needs to be rewritten using LGPL 
as a license or can (parts or whole of) the x264 encoder be 
"relicensed"? Maybe this isn't completely the right place to ask, but 
here it will reach a larger crowd than other mailinglists and it's a 
fact that some x264 developers hang around here.

> The H264 codec is quite complicated, and I think it will still take  
> some time before someone writes a GPL version of the codec. It's  still 
> a lot of work i suspect.

I think quite some people are willing to spend time on improving and 
testing the H264 encoder if the license is changed to LGPL.

Kind regards,

Maarten