[gst-devel] H.264 encoder for Debian

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, the same applies to essentially all codecs.

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Felipe Contreras