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

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

sounds like a good idea
why not add it to -addons?

On Jun 14, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Anton wrote:

> 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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