https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9127
--- Comment #97 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to Bryan Kirk from comment #96)
According to the repository that I linked to, the patent has expired which means that its now safe to include it.
Regardless of whether there are outstanding patents, we should make use of existing infastructure (e.g. most of the dshow <-> gstreamer glue), and I would not feel particularly comfortable depending on a library developed by one person and just over a year old.