[mveg-9] Re: Binary Ready-to-Run MPEG-1/2 Encoder
- From: major4@xxxxxxx
- To: mveg-9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:20:55 +0200
Yo James.
Following MPEG-2 licensing terms, if you distribute binaries of an MPEG
encoder you may (depending on jurisdiction) be liable to pay patent
royalties.
It seem that these patent laws are not strongly pursued in the EU, but
you may be in a legal grayzone. Andrew Stevens from mjpegtools crew
said that he doesn't think that the MPEG committee pursues OpenSource
implementations of MPEG codecs, and he has never been accused of
anything.
There is however the example of TMPGenc. It started as a free product,
but MPEG-LA became aware of it and demanded patent royalty payments, so
remaining free was not an option and mpeg-2 encoding was only activated
in a "Pro" paying version.
The system used by Mediapipe (autocompiling) is of course very nice. I
guess there could also be as you suggest an installer automatically
compiling and moving all the sensible binaries in /usr/bin, such
installer could be a sort of standalone product.
major-
>
> Hi again,
>
> The first thing I'd like to discuss with everyone is the current
> hesitation
> to release binary ready-to-run MPEG-1/2 encoders. I believe Major
> mentioned
> it in his release notes relative to MJPEG tools.
>
> Does anyone have an example of a free binary encoder being attacked?
> I'm
> not sure that MPEG-2 encoding will be freely and widely available on
> the
> Mac platform until someone releases ready-to-run software.
>
> Since Mac OS X has freely available development tools, one option is
> to create preconfigured package which compiles with as little effort as
> clicking an icon.
>
> -James
>
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