I have no choice but to use H264 because my camera outputs in those files. Not being employed, I do not have the option of discarding and replacing cameras.
Therefore, I do not use the stripped version of ffmpeg, and that's not going to change. We lost the fight to kill the patented codecs outright a long time ago, so now we must prevent sucessful enforcement of those patents against free software or we lose interoperability. As for output codecs, I have had little luck getting all those non computer savvy folks I work with in activism to replace Windows XP on their typical older laptops and desktops, meaning everything I publish must be playable on a WinXP machine. On 02/13/2014 at 2:55 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > >On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:47 -0500, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >> Writers of applications should be discouraged from using >patented anything that they >> could reasonably have avoided, and doubly discouraged from using >non-free >> licenses. I agree with distros refusing to distribute software >that voluntariliy uses >> patented algorithms or non-free licenses. After all, the >"interoperability" defense seen >> with codecs does not apply in such cases. >> >> If authors of code get the idea that a restrictive license bars >them from every distro's >> repos and limits them to PPA's, that is a powerful inducement to >remove patented >> routines and release under a free license. >> >> Codec patents, however, we have no choice but to fight, as free >codecs too often can't >> be played by pay operating systems whose users may be the target >audience of videos >> and audio files. Also the owners of codec all remember how the >patent FUD over .gif >> killed the format and nobody wants to be next in line for that. > >Full acknowledgment :), with the restriction :p, that I understand >the >LinuxSampler's illegal GPL restriction and I like it ;D, but I >don't >care about all that patented codecs, I don't need them and I have >not >much respect to people who need them. Are codecs heroin? > > > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
