[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] Website news update about AMR libraries

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Friday 2009-07-24 10:49:56 +0200, Daniel G. Taylor encoded:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 19:14 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:16:18PM +0200, Robert Swain wrote:
> > > Looks OK to me. Any comments Diego?
> > 
> > The lines are horribly long.  OK otherwise.
> 
> Whoops, not used to wrapping HTML since browsers handle all that.
> Updated patch attached that wraps before 80 chars for all but the
> longest URL (not sure how to handle that).
> 
> Take care,
> -- 
> Daniel G. Taylor
> http://programmer-art.org/

> Index: index
> ===================================================================
> --- index	(revision 378)
> +++ index	(working copy)
> @@ -38,6 +38,37 @@
>  
>  <h1>News</h1>
>  
> +<h3>July 23, 2009</h3>
> +<p>
> +FFmpeg has removed support for 
> +<a href="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">libamr</a> as of svn revision 19365. 
> +It has been replaced with support for 
> +<a href="http://opencore-amr.sourceforge.net/">libopencore-amr</a>. Naturally 
> +the configure options have changed. The libamr options have been removed and 
> +there are two new options to take their place:
> +</p>
> +<ul>
> +    <li>--enable-libopencore-amrnb</li>
> +    <li>--enable-libopencore-amrwb</li>
> +</ul>
> +<p>
> +    The reason for this change is that the libamr license was non-free, while 
> +    libopencore-amr is licensed under an Apache 2 license. The change was 
> +    <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-May/069779.html">
> +    discussed at length</a> on the developer mailing list during May, June, 
> +    and July. This has several effects:
> +</p>
> +<ul>
> +    <li>
> +        You may now distribute FFmpeg builds with support for dynamically 
> +        loading libopencore-amr
> +    </li>
> +    <li>
> +        Support for AMR-WB encoding has been removed since libopencore-amr
> +        does not support it
> +    </li>
> +</ul>
> +
>  <h3>May 7, 2009</h3>
>  <p>

I wonder if we should document these configure interface changes in
ChangeLog also.

Regards.
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