[Asterisk-video] libavcodec integration? (was Integrating mpeg4 video codec in asterisk)

[Anton]

So, why can't it be maintained somehow like addon, and let 
makers on libavicodec care about the license, asterisk will 
just provide a lib/interface to the already made code and 
use it. And finally _officially_ it is LGPL.

On 14 June 2006 19:51, SteveK wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > is there a licence problem with integrating libavcodec
> > (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec) into
> > asterisk? This is licensed under LGPL so AFAICS it
> > should be compatible with the asterisk system. this'll
> > allow us to transcode video between lots of formats and
> > codecs :)
>
> The issues are:
>
> 1) not all of it is LGPL;  some of it is GPL, including
> many of the most interesting parts (x264, for example).
> 2) Patents:  You can't actually use most of it because of
> patent issues, and because of the GPL/LGPL patent
> clauses, you can't distribute the code along with a
> Patent License unless you License all potential users of
> the code.
>
> So, I'm guessing you'd see the same resistance to that
> that you have with the Intel voice codec implementations.
>
> -SteveK
>
> > roy
> >
> > On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:34 PM, John Martin wrote:
> >> Zeeshan,
> >>
> >>   Asterisk doesn’t do anything with video at the
> >> moment, it only passes video from either file to an IP
> >> port or from one IP port to another. Therefore, there
> >> are no codecs in Asterisk. There are ways of getting
> >> H.261, H.263 and H.264 into file formats that Asterisk
> >> will recognise (through GStreamer for instance) but
> >> that is performed outside of Asterisk.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> John Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> From: asterisk-video-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk- video-bounces at lists.digium.com] On
> >> Behalf Of Khawaja Zeeshan Sent: 14 June 2006 13:46
> >> To: asterisk-video at lists.digium.com
> >> Subject: [Asterisk-video] Integrating mpeg4 video
> >> codec in asterisk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I need help. I intend to integrate mpeg4 codec in
> >> asterisk. Does asterisk support any video codecs
> >> currently? If yes why it is not in the "codecs"
> >> folder?
> >>
> >> Moreover can anyone please tell me how a codec is
> >> invoked when asterisk receives an incoming call or
> >> sends an outgong call?
> >>
> >> I shall be very grateful if someone can help me.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Zeeshan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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