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A comment on Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec. Parent comment

Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by anon4 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:07PM (#6897620)
Why can't they just build ffmpeg (with only h.264 enabled), instead of their own implementation of h.264?
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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by Sanddancer on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:47PM (#6898109)
ffmpeg is lgpl-encumbered. Openh264 is under the much more open BSD license.
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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by dpe82 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @08:01PM (#6898437)
For WebRTC they also need an encoder. ffmpeg uses libx264 for encoding H.264, which is GPL.
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