[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Enable swscale by default

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 05:06:51PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> 
>> The patch below enables swscale by default.
>> The intent is to get more exposure, testing and to avoid people wasting time
>> working on the old scaler.
>
> I'm not against this, but ..
>
>> --- configure	(revision 15306)
>> +++ configure	(working copy)
>> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
>>    echo "  --enable-postproc        enable GPLed postprocessing support [default=no]"
>> -  echo "  --enable-swscale         software scaler support [default=no]"
>> +  echo "  --disable-swscale        disable software scaler support [default=no]"
>>    echo "  --enable-avfilter        video filter support (replaces vhook) [default=no]"
>> @@ -972,6 +972,7 @@
>>  enable stripping
>> +enable swscale
>>  vhook="default"
>
> .. this requires --enable-gpl so this flag should be made default as
> well.

No, we should make swscale lgpl.  Suddenly having FFmpeg gpl by
default will probably cause a lot of people to unwittingly violate the
license.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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