[asterisk-dev] Using FFmpeg

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>
> None of that is necessarily a reason to avoid FFmpeg usage in Asterisk
> completely, but it's worth analyzing and discussing. It's the same
> reason that most Linux distributions that package FFmpeg do it very
> carefully, and require the user to take special steps to install the
> portions that are (or potentially are) patent-infringing.

Unfortunately FFmpeg is monolithic.  You can enable/disable certain
codecs but it's difficult/impossible to separate FFmpeg into an
"infringing" and a "non-infringing" set of binary packages.

-- 
Jeff Ollie