Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by winter_blue on Monday March 07, 2016 @05:19AM
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Would you need a license for H.264 and other codecs, if you wanted to put up a fully open source MIT-licensed custom-purpose libVLC-based player that you created on the iOS, Android, Mac, et al app stores?
Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by jbk on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:50AM
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First, libVLC is LGPL. But for the other part, it depends.
For MPEG-4 ASP or H.264, this is usually decoded by the hardware or the OS. For some other codecs, notably Dolby and DTS, it's more tricky.
Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by winter_blue on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:54AM
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Oop, I should have been more clear -- I meant patent licenses for codecs that are still encumbered by patents.
And that works on all platforms, including Android and iOS, and gives you both hardware decoding and FFmpeg libavcodec software decoding. Without having the complexity (and sometimes performance issues) of GStreamer.