On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 09:25:46AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 08/21/2015 09:18 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
Did libav drop whatever patent-encumbered code from ffmpeg? If not, I don't see how this solves any patent issues for distros that care about it.
GStreamer plugins can be shipped outside of the distribution.
Example: Fedora ships gstreamer with patent free codecs. RPMFusion ships additional patent encumbered plugins that Fedora users can install.
- Install Fedora
- dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-good
- Install RPMFusion repository
- dnf install gstreamer1-libav
OK. So most useful to you would be an external WMA decoding implementation and a run-time switch to enable WMA decoding iff the library is available. That way users can have WMA support by just installing a non-free package, without having to rebuild wine with a different configure switch. I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
Andrew