[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH]Support ProRes if libopencore is not available / was disabled

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Thu Sep 15 22:45:27 CEST 2011


Lobster <lobo <at> lobs.sytes.net> writes:

> On 16/09/2011 7:34 a.m., Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I will apply attached if nobody has better ideas, Carl Eugen
> 
> Why does ProRes depend on libopencore in the first place?
> As far as I know any real ProRes video/audio files wont use any codecs 
> provided
> by libopencore.

libopencore's software license is not compatible with GPL v2 (but v3), FFmpeg's
ProRes decoder is GPL v2 (only).

Carl Eugen



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