Re: [Libav-user] Using ffmpeg.exe in a project (non-commercial)

2012-02-23 Thread John Dexter
On 23 February 2012 01:19, Phil Turmel phi...@turmel.org wrote: On 02/22/2012 10:53 AM, Benjamin Gamisch wrote: [...] I would appreciate an answer whether I am allowed to use the FFMPEG.exe file or not. Per your screenshot, probably not.  If you distribute FFmpeg, you must follow the

Re: [Libav-user] Using ffmpeg.exe in a project (non-commercial)

2012-02-23 Thread John Dexter
On 23 February 2012 09:41, jan hölscher jan.hoelsc...@codergrid.de wrote: 2012/2/23 John Dexter jdxsoluti...@gmail.com On 23 February 2012 01:19, Phil Turmel phi...@turmel.org wrote: On 02/22/2012 10:53 AM, Benjamin Gamisch wrote: [...] I would appreciate an answer whether I am allowed

Re: [Libav-user] Using ffmpeg.exe in a project (non-commercial)

2012-02-23 Thread John Dexter
On 23 February 2012 12:07, Phil Turmel phi...@turmel.org wrote: Finally, whatever the legality, it is at least rude to hijack an open- source app's website bandwidth to deliver source code to *your* users. Apart from the inherent problem of defining social etiquette within a legal contract...

Re: [Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-06 Thread John Dexter
On 6 February 2012 09:32, Nicolas George nicolas.geo...@normalesup.org wrote: L'octidi 18 pluviôse, an CCXX, John Dexter a écrit : If you're going to make such assertions please back them up. My research into dynamic linking of (L)GPL libraries finds multiple explicit claims that distribution

Re: [Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-05 Thread John Dexter
On 5 February 2012 16:38, Carl Eugen Hoyos ceho...@ag.or.at wrote: John Dexter jdxsolutions@... writes: 2. I had some concerns reading about the legal side, GPL and LGPL. Our software is totally closed source and while we use LGPL libraries, it sounded like some parts of ffmpeg are GPL

Re: [Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-05 Thread John Dexter
(Or in other words: It will only affect you if you want H264 encoding but are not willing to buy a commercial x264 license.) Sorry, I need to ask about that in more detail after more thought. There are 2 separate issues here it seems... 1. Whether I can use ffmpeg libraries to encode H264

Re: [Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-05 Thread John Dexter
On 5 February 2012 18:42, Carl Eugen Hoyos ceho...@ag.or.at wrote: Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos@... writes: The list contains all things you have to do afaict, and some things that really make a lot of sense if you trying to fulfil the requirements of the LGPL (as opposed to trying very

Re: [Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-05 Thread John Dexter
On 6 February 2012 03:03, Carl Eugen Hoyos ceho...@ag.or.at wrote: John Dexter jdxsolutions@... writes: [About http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html ] That page includes distribute the ffmpeg source code. IIRC that's not a requirement for LGPL? It is a crystal-clear requirement. If you're

[Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

2012-02-04 Thread John Dexter
Hello all, I develop software (C++ using wxWidgets for Mac and Windows) which does 3D rendering (using Ogre3D) and we want to allow users to record a video as they work. ffmpeg was recommended in a couple of places but to be honest, it looks quite big and scary so before committing to using it, I