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?
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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.