[Ffmpeg-devel] On2 Flix Engine uses memcoder in commerical Flix Engine

Alex Beregszaszi alex
Thu Apr 27 17:39:04 CEST 2006


Hi,

> What i dont understand, the engine coast over 2000 U$. On2 kills all 
> projects that tries
> to support the vp6 codec. Theirself uses extern patent protected codec in 
> their commercial
> software.
> 
> Can anyone explain how this can be?

I think some of the management is greedy, while some devs do think that
complying to licenses is nice :)

At least looking at the sources, additions are:
* ogg muxer
* raw ogg pcm and yuv encoders
* some GIF support hacks
* mencoder hacks

I think we could commit some of them.

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