[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Compiling FFmpeg using ISO/C89 compiler

[Steve Lhomme]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:36:48PM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>> Cian Duffy wrote:
>>>> - WMV/VC1, AC3, AAC, DTS, RealVideo40 decoding in the LGPL code, (VC1 is
>>>> getting there)
>>>> - DivX encoding using the DivX encoder,
>>>
>>> You want other people to implement these codecs LGPL, and yet want to code
>>> to use your firms binary decoder? I sense a slight failure of logic here...
>> Nop. There are 2 different lines: one for the stuff that would be nice 
>> when using the LGPL version, the other is one of our (main) requirement. 
>> But I agree it doesn't really matter to most people if it's available.
>>
>> Anyway, I mostly listed the stuff that we had to add, fix or change in 
>> order to have a usable library for what we need.
> 
> you added a LGPL RV40 decoder? ;)

I added some LGPL code to decode RV40, yes. But it's using DirectShow to 
access the original Real DLLs. So I didn't even think about submitting 
it here.

> anyway if you want to have some things like RV40 support, why dont you just
> get divxnetworks to sponsor it like googles summer of code (though of course
> the requirement for final payment should be a working decoder in svn not
> just something somewhere which someone else then has to cleanup and
> integrate)

DivX, Inc. is not called DivXNetworks anymore :) And they are already 
sponsoring their own employees to improve FFMPEG ;) Plus RealVideo 
decoding is not really a priority for us. But that makes DrDivX one of 
the very few tools that can convert many matroska files (RV9) to 
something more usable.

Steve