[FFmpeg-devel] Integrating ffprobe into FFmpeg?

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> On date Wednesday 2007-11-14 15:43:22 +0100, Alex Beregszaszi encoded:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > the audio decoder function should return the size of the input buffer
> > > *used*, while in libavcodec/nellymoserdec.c it actually returns the
> > > size of the decompressed frame.
> > > 
> > > You can spot the problem immediately using for example my tool ffprobe
> > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffprobe) which shows for each audio
> > > nellymoser frame these informations (-show_frames):
> > 
> > What about importing that tool into ffmpeg?
> 
> I originally designed ffprobe to be a part of FF-mpeg (and indeed it
> shares code/design with it), and to me it would be still a good idea
> to integrate it in FF-mpeg (no code duplication, better integration
> with FF-mpeg and easier accessibility for the FF-mpeg users), if the
> others maintainers agree and are not too much bothered by the many
> problems it still has.

I don't know if adding some GPLv3 code in FFmpeg is such a good idea.
It would add to the licensing confusion.
I would personally prefer seeing it licensed under LGPL or at least
GPLv2 or later if it gets included in FFmpeg.

Aurel