[gst-devel] H.264 encoder for Debian

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but it's in 'bad' because of bad quality, not because of legal
reasons. For legal reasons plugins go to 'ugly'. That's what I was
saying.

-- 
Felipe Contreras