[gst-devel] H.264 encoder for Debian

[Andoni Morales]

2009/4/25 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>:
> 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.

And I was just saying that Debian doesn't ship this package in
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad because it's patent-encumbered:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354667

Andoni

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