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Re: ffmpeg and mpeg2video codec



Le Saturday 26 January 2008 18:47:07 Daniel Dickinson, vous avez écrit :
> Anyone know what happened to the mpeg2video video codec in the lenny
> version of ffmpeg?  It seems to have been removed.  Is it a patent
> issue, and if so will it eventually also effect players such as vlc,
> mplayer and xine?

Unfortunately, it has been removed for patent risks, I've seen it in the 
changelog.

This forbid me to use the capacity of my ISP's ADSL box to view videos on my 
TV (freeplayer, using vlc).

I thought that debian-multimedia.org would have provide an alternative, but 
not for the moment.

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