On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:27 pm, Damien Sandras wrote: > Unfortunately it means one more dependancy. I'm not sure either that > distributions can ship with ffmpeg... Red Hat wouldnt ship it and i think the overall legality of it is very sketchy. its probably very legal in some countries but illegal in others. > > But here is the news : > > I would like to point out that AliceStreet have commissioned some work > > to add the ffmpeg library to openh323, so the H263 codec is made > > available. > > > > Once that work is out there ( < 2 weeks) the mpeg4 should be very doable. > would be very benificial to have the support though especially if it means less bandwidth used. > H.263 is far better in terms of bandwidth than H.261, it is what Netmeeting > is using. However, I don't know if it is legal or not ! > > If it is legal, then I will add it to GM. And we will discuss if it makes > sense to let the choice to the user to use the one or the other or if we > simply add H.263 as preferred codec.
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