Talk:Libavcodec

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Shouldn't the FFmpeg and the libavcodec wikipedia articles be merged into one article?, (I suggest that the libavcodec article be merged into the FFmpeg article as a subsection, plus maybe create another subsection for libavformat). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gamester17 (talk • contribs) 14:31, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

No it shouldn't be merged. This would unnecessary clutter the FFmpeg article. They are two different things like David and Igor Oistrakh :) I removed the merge tag. The Ubik 21:15, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

MPEG-2 is "made up" of many patents. Therefore, how can this library be free (as in speech)? --Abdull 20:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

So is MPEG-4 and other formats (almost everything in the multimedia area is covered by patents). I'm not a lawyer, but I think that releasing source code does not violate patents - it's up to the users to use compiled binary versions which may or may not infringe various patents. Besides, there are countries (Europe etc.) where "software patents" do not apply. -- J. M. 03:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

FFmpeg recently added support for VP5 and VP6 according to their irc channel, I'll add it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skeith (talk • contribs) 19:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC).