2018-03-07 12:11 GMT-03:00 René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com>: > On Wednesday March 07 2018 08:07:29 Rex Dieter wrote: >> My $0.02, last I checked, it has a hard dependency on ffmpeg (a legal >> minefield, media codec patents), which makes it not freely redistributable >> in many jurisdictions (US in particular) > > FFmpeg can be built in 3 different ways, with 2 "free" options where it's > covered by GPL2, GPL3.
The last patent covering MPEG-2 expired in 13 February 2018. You can imagine what the situation is for codecs newer than that... -- Nicolás
