mediacoder

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php media converter development

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  • Posted by 2012-01-11

    According to Wikipedia's mediacoder entry (retrieved 11/Jan/2012), prior to 2008 mediacoder was "free and open source". This strongly suggests it was issued under a copyleft license, and all copyleft licenses are necessarily irrevocable. E.g. under the GNU GPL, afaik a developer is entitled to make and distribute non-copyleft improvements without the source for the improvements, but any distributor of the new work is legally obliged to provide sufficient source code as to readily allow compilation of the original copyleft version. Thus afaik if the original version was copyleft, the developer, sourceforge, or any other distributor cannot legally distribute the improved non-copyleft version without making equally available at least the complete source code for compiling the original copyleft version. Furthermore, although sourceforge is not legally obliged to continue to serve a copyleft project, I think that considerations of goodwill (and hence good business sense) suggest that they should do so so as to discourage illegal behavior by developers. Copyleft is not only a legal contract, it is a social contract, and 'bait & switch' tactics leave a sour taste in the mouth. Mediacoder's developer may decide to act illegally, but if sourceforge enables such bait & switch tactics it will be vulnerable to being replaced by an organization that adheres to the spirit of copyleft software. If anyone can point us to an earlier copyleft version, then afaik anyone else could upload it as a sourceforge project, and all of us could download it. Or sourceforge, could you please make available the latest copyleft version in your archives.

  • Posted by 2012-01-08

    As of December 2009, MediaCoder is no longer open-source. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaCoder.

  • Posted by 2012-01-05

    I think people are getting confused by the fact that SourceForge is placing a big ad for AVS and sometimes other media converters on the page with nice, big Download Free buttons, while there is no download for Mediacoder. It looks like the actual app we're looking for has been taken down.

  • Posted by 2011-07-13

    It is proprietary software. Why is it still on SourceForge?

  • Posted by 2010-10-16

    I'm still looking for video coding that works, and can handle a few bells and whistles (subtitles). I thought briefly this was it, but its really just gone to crap. there's an "update" 4 times a week to get you on the website to look at advertising. though it does mostly work, it is very hard to use (even if you know what you're doing) and I can't get the videos to play back on my phone, no matter the settings (of which there are too many to count), so there are issues with its encoding. also, apparently, (now seems obvious) closed source.

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