Am Donnerstag, 28. November 2002, 13:06:47 Uhr MET, schrieb Giuseppe Ghibň: > >>If I understand this Changelog correctly...is this the start of > >>complying with the new MPEG4 licensing stuff? DivX4 and XviD decoding > >>functionality appears to have been disabled from the .mdk build and is > >>built only in the .plf build now, is this correct? > >No, DivX4 and Xvid have never been in main. I've disabled them for the > >plf release this time, because they aren't included in this version. > >But there's ffmpeg included in xine, just like in mplayer. > What i sthe difference from point of view of license/patents between > libavcodec of ffmpeg and xvid? Both seems implementing an MPEG4 codec. Both > seems GPL (xvid) or LGPL (libavcodec). In xvid furthermore there is forbid > of distribution in JAPAN and USA due to section 8 of GPL.
That's true. The difference AFAIK: ffmpeg was GPL from the beginning. It's a complete reimplementation of DivX. Xvid is based on OpenDivX which is based on some iso reference code. The xvid project has replaced the old code with GPL code (just like lame, I guess). The patents problem remains, unfortunately. > Divx4/Divx5 instead is available only as binary only library. That's why it's in PLF. -- Götz Waschk <> master of computer science <> University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
