Video files debugging....

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> As I said before, FFMPEG is getting really
> good now and the CVS version is working flawlessly with WMA streams.
> Once the next version of FFMPEG released and followed by a release from
> Xine (or if Xine released a version that include the new ffwma code)
> Totem will work out of the box with WMA.

Wow, this good ? Do you have an idea about how many months it could take
for the CVS to be stable ? Could ffmpeg realsed their stuff in time for
Breezy, for example ?! :o)

> Exactly! But remember there is one other problem: Patents.  Microsoft
> (or any other company/party) may sue Ubuntu/FFMPEG/programmers if they
> includes, say, ffwma decoder even that it's open source and doesn't
> depend (or include) any copyrighted code from others. Why? Because they
> might have a patent on the technology of decoding a stream of bytes that
> we call Windows Media Audio (either version 1 or 2).

I think that would really be "too much" ! Although, given that Bill does
all he can to kill Linux, I think it's safe to say that if he reckoned
(well, his laywers) that he stood the slightest chance to hurt Linux by
suing us on this matter, he would have done happily so already !

So, let's hope that this new ffmpeg gets released in time for Breezy,
and let's wait for Gstreamer to be mature enough to play any format
flawlessly...


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Vince