Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by colejohnson66 on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:13AM
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Well, it is the way Audacity gets around patent issues. The official builds (at least on Windows) come with support for FFmpeg, but not the DLL. If you want FFmpeg, you either need to build it yourself or download a pre-built version. Once added to your %PATH%, Audacity will dynamically load the libraries at runtime.
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Re:How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
by Hydraulix989 on Monday March 07, 2016 @01:23PM
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The funny/ironic thing is that ffmpeg (they HATE when people spell it FFmpeg -- FFmpeg is to ffmpeg as Frisco is to San Francisco) is very likely infringing on MPEG LA's patents. They have a glob of evasive rhetoric tiptoeing around that issue ("we are not lawyers," etc.) in their FAQ while not failing to expose their hypocrisy.