[gst-devel] H.264 encoder for Debian
Andoni Morales
ylatuya at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 16:51:16 CEST 2009
2009/4/25 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/4/24 Marlène Hildebrand-Ehrhardt <marlene.hildebrandehrhardt at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Could anybody tell me which gstreamer package I should install in order to
>>> have an H264 encoder? I'm using Debian Lenny.
>>
>> Debian has removed the H264 encoder plugin from the
>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package for legal reasons.
>> They think it might be a problem according to Software patents
>
> That would be 'ugly', 'bad' means the quality is not so good.
I know that for GStreamer this problem does not exists, and that's why
this plugin is in 'bad'. But for Debian, there might be a software
patents problem arround libx264 and they do not include the libx264
package in the official repositories.
Andoni
>
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