I took a look at the Handbrake website -- http://handbrake.m0k.org/ -- and YES it too seems to be just a nice GUI built on top of FFmpeg, liba52, x264, etc. Take a look at the bottom of that page (in the section labelled "Credits") to see it.
See ya
On 4/20/06, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm confused. I thought that iSquint was a derivative of Handbrake.
If so does Handbrake use FFmpeg too? I thought that Handbrake was
software ported over to MacOSX from BeOS. Whatever the case they are
both really useful tools.
Bill Streeter
LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
www.lofistl.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I believe it's actually FFmpeg, liba52, and x264 that actually
doing all the
> work. I think iSquint is a [nice] GUI built on top of it.
>
>
> See ya
>
> On 4/20/06, Michael Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I hope so, I love iSquint. It's gottent really, really good.
> > And it's fast. Even on my old media center. By fast I mean it
only takes
> > 24 hours to rencode a whole movie in mpeg4. :)
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I sent the author an e-mail.
> >
> > Like I said though, the author may have just made an honest
mistake.
> >
> >
> > See ya
> >
> > On 4/20/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm missed something, but.... iSquint seems to be
violating the
> > > GNU GPL license.
> > >
> > > (It's using software licensed under the GNU GPL but is not
itself also
> > > licensed under that license. And it's not releasing the
source code.)
> > >
> > > Specifically, it is violating the licenses of liba52 and
x264. (Both of
> > > which it looks like iSquint uses.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Now,... it may be that he's done this by accident. He's
linking to
> > > FFmpeg; which is (normally) licensed under the GNU LGPL. (And
that license
> > > does NOT require you to make your software Free and opensource
software
> > > too. And thus does NOT compel you to release your source
code.)
> > >
> > > But, he's compiling FFmpeg with "--enable-gpl" so that he can
bring in
> > > liba52 an x264. Which then forces that special version of
FFmpeg to become
> > > GPL (instead of just LGPL).
> > >
> > > Which forces iSquint to become GPL. Which compels him to
release his
> > > source code (under the terms of the GNU GPL).
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know the author of iSquint?
> > >
> > >
> > > See ya
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/20/06, bofoboho < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > For all you MAC users. Excellent and FAST tool for
converting all you
> > > > .mov's to your favorite codec~!
> > > >
> > > > iSquint <http://www.isquint.org/>
> > > >
> > > > Smithie Boho
> > > >
> > >
> [...]
>
>
> --
> Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>
> charles @ reptile.ca
> supercanadian @ gmail.com
>
> developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
>
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