On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Shan Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xplayer is advanced on basic of mplayer (GPL) by our team. mplayer code is > the core of xplayer and provide many primary functions for it, such as > audio/video playback, streaming multimedia transport protocols and AV > encode-decode (actually supported by FFmpeg ).
after some bit of research I found that mplayer and FFmpeg projects are actually very problematic to integrate with an Apache project. Both trigger concerns because they potentially include patented algorithms. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mplayer , Legal Issues section. This is very bad. This software is simply not distributable in many countries. But I am sure there are other libraries out there which are safe to use, for example Vorbis and Theora at http://www.xiph.org/ Bernd
