[haiku-development] Re: INPUT / VOTE : --include-gpl-addons
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:47:11 +1000
2009/8/19 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Urias McCullough<umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM, David McPaul<dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 2009/8/19 Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 17:31, Urias McCullough<umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> If we disable the GPL bits in ffmpeg, I'm going to strongly desire VLC ...
>>>
>>> What does the GPL enable for you that you need?
>>
>> I had read that we disabled AC3 from ffmpeg due to GPL - I didn't
>> catch that we had our own and it was in use. I will retest this soon
>> when I get a chance.
>
> Ok, I was totally confused :)
>
> It wasn't that disabling GPL removed the AC3 from ffmpeg, it was that
> it removed our ac3_decoder in HaikuImage:
>
> $(GPL_ONLY)ac3_decoder
>
> So, what's the deal? Will we have AC3 support without GPL addons? I
> know a fair number of videos I have use AC3, and I've been compiling
> haiku by default with GPL addons for quite some time now, so I don't
> know what doesn't work without it.
Ok, it seems both the ffmpeg library and our ac3 add-on use the liba52
library which is GPL.
So without GPL we lose AC3.
--
Cheers
David
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