Bug#247337: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: lives_0.9.8.10-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED]]
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:00:20PM +0100, salsaman@xs4all.nl wrote:
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> I hope so. Somebody mentioned the icons also last time - I can't believe
> anybody would complain, they are 16 x 16 pixel (8 in total) bitmaps used
> for play/rewind/stop/pause etc buttons. But I have added the thanks in to
> the debian/copyright file now.
This sounds like copyright-significant, but I don't think it's a problem;
if the author doesn't want to license them, we have plenty of generic icons
for play/etc already (I bet both GNOME and KDE have a few of them).
> As was mentioned initially, indeed LiVES offers great ogg/theora support
> both for encoding and decoding (instant decode is now a feature).
Great. Btw, is mencoder needed for input? Note that although mplayer is in
Debian, mencoder isn't yet.
> In
> future I plan to offer enhanced support for other free codecs, for example
> the dirac codec which has been developed by the BBC. LiVES already
> includes experimental encoding support for this format.
How does Dirac compare to Theora? I heard both are patent-free.
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