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Originally posted by tenchrio View Post
The ffmpeg site offers official Deb and RPM packages. Alternatively you can add an unofficial PPA.
They link to places where you can download compiled binaries but ffmpeg does not distribute anything except source code.
They did this so they can't be accused of infringing on any patents, in the U.S. the courts have ruled that source code is free speech but binaries could be considered infringing.
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Originally posted by Artim View Post
x264 has been patent free for 20 years. What more do you ask for?
X264 used lots of patented technology, B-frames, AQ, psy-rd, trellis, do a patent search, all of them were/are patented technology.
What they did was distribute source code, which gas been considered free speech by the courts.
I'm not sure all the H264 patents have expired yet either.Last edited by sophisticles; 05 April 2024, 05:36 PM.
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Originally posted by pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx View PostWhy do you think Fedora and OpenSUSE need to work with Cisco (who is a contributor to the patent pool) to provide the users of their distro a working H.264 solution?- There had been claims made against x264, obviously without any success. So some people were scared off
- Cisco is part of the MPEG LA and guarantees for no claims being made against OpenH264. The Videolan project can't give any such guarantees
- x264 is GPL 2+, which does make some people uncomfortable because of GPL's viral nature. Only since 2010 it's also allowed to have it under a proprietary license. OpenH264 is under a simplified BSD license
- OpenH264 first and foremost was made for Firefox for real time encoding for WebRTC. x264 wasn't able to handle this
- especially the people at Fedora are ridiculously paranoid. To an extent that they removed support for h264 hardware codecs just a few years back, after having them for god knows how many years, just like pretty much every distro and no claims ever being made.
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Originally posted by Artim View Post
Doesn't mean there are any patents on x264.
If you any specific questions, feel free to join us over at the Video Help forums.
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Originally posted by pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx View Postx264 is a free and open source encoder and there are no patents to worry about on its code.
Just because source code is "open source" does not mean that it can not be infringing an any intellectual property rights, if it is distributed in binary format.
So long as you distribute only code then courts have said that it is free speech and not infringing.
But the compiled version can, and does, infringe on patents.
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
Yeah, typing "make" is such a hassle.
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
To the people of this forum, do yourselves a favor and do not listen to this person on any matters related to video.
If you any specific questions, feel free to join us over at the Video Help forums.
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
This is so stupid it hurts.
Just because source code is "open source" does not mean that it can not be infringing an any intellectual property rights, if it is distributed in binary format.
So long as you distribute only code then courts have said that it is free speech and not infringing.
But the compiled version can, and does, infringe on patents.
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