30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
5:02 p.m.
On 09/29/2014 09:53 PM, g wrote:
the problem is, VLC steps all over a bunch of patents for various media formats, like mp3, mp4, which are heavily constrained by patents.... players are supposed to pay royalties, so legitimate US business at least can't distribute working binaries of free opensource implementations.
VLC has the option to record video using FLAC and THEORA.
https://xiph.org/flac/license.html http://www.theora.org/faq/#14
I suppose you could dig into the RPM and delete any libraries that you don't have licenses for. Or just use an external video camera...
Chris