Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ideas..

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 00:07 +0000, JGJones a écrit :
> Since I use GnomeMeeting primarily for videocalls...it's main weakness 
> as you probably know is the fact that OpenH323 only use the H261 encoder.
> 
> Obviously it'll be lovely if they had a H264 encoder. Alas, we don't.
> 
> I was wondernig since I came across the x264 project here - 
> http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html
> 
> I release that it's still very much in very early days but for future 
> use, should it improve, is there any arguement against using x264? Such 
> as patents? They're reverse-engineering the encoder so that would make 
> it legal doesn't it?
> 

Patents are not on the code, they are on the technics, so it is
certainly not legal, at least in the US. In Europe, it is still a bit
"vague".

However, there is a licensing problem. x264 is GPL, and OPAL/OPENH323
are MPL. GPL and MPL are incompatible. If we make a plugin, then it
won't solve the problem following Mr Stallman because the program is
"linked" in memory.

x264 should add an exception clause for OpenH323/OPAL in their license.
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