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From: David S. <ds...@sc...> - 2008-08-23 20:15:10
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:51:20PM -0700, jjc...@ya... wrote: > So my questions for this list are: > 1. Could a MPEG-1 video decoder that was acceptably licensed and of > sufficient quality be added to the gstreamer good plugins? Not now, because the relevant patents aren't expired. The point of -good isn't to pack as much stuff into it as possible -- it's for stuff that distributors don't have to think twice about. MPEG-1 video is not at that point yet. If the explanation why something can go into -good takes more than about one sentence, it's probably not OK. > 2. Could a MPEG-1 audio layer 2 decoder that was acceptably licensed > and of sufficient quality be added to the gstreamer good plugins? MPEG-1 audio layer 2 has never been patent encumbered, encoding or decoding. There just isn't a good library that has been wrapped. > 3. If the answer to either of the above is no, what would prevent that > from occurring? Er, uh, code just doesn't just magically appear out of thin air. :) dave... |