[gst-devel] H.264 encoder for Debian

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:27 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > 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 think he was referring to the x264enc plugin, which is in
gst-plugins-bad and which Debian doesn't ship.

There might be external repositories which provide it though, such as
debian-multimedia.org (no idea how good their packages are).

Cheers
 -Tim