On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know you've probably explained the rules to me before, buy why is it a > problem for Fedora to link with ffmpeg in the ordinary way? > Fedora being US based and hosted can't distribute FFMpeg due to patent issues which also means nothing in Fedora can link against it. That is one of the main reasons for the existence of RPM Fusion, to fill that gap. I guess if you wanted to submit a PR that includes a build-time switch that > would cause it to somehow dynamically load it (versus link it), I would > certainly entertain the idea of merging it (especially if the default was > the usual linkage). But I don't have the time to do it myself. > > You are, of course, also free to just build with USE_FFMPEG=0 for that > platform. > For now I don't think anyone is missing the functionality it has and I don't need to worry about build flags since ffmpeg would not be in the build tree when building for Fedora. Thanks, Richard
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