RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Andrew Eikum]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 09:09:31AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 08/21/2015 08:59 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> >In addition to what Michael Stefaniuc said, I don't think gstreamer
> >has WMA support?
> >
> >http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html
> >
> >I wasn't able to find any open source libraries to decode WMA other
> >than FFmpeg.
> >
> >Andrew
> 
> WMA support is provided by the libav plugin.
> 
> $ gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i wma
> typefindfunctions: video/x-ms-asf: asf, wm, wma, wmv
> libav:  avenc_wmav1: libav Windows Media Audio 1 encoder
> libav:  avenc_wmav2: libav Windows Media Audio 2 encoder
> libav:  avdec_wmalossless: libav Windows Media Audio Lossless decoder
> libav:  avdec_wmapro: libav Windows Media Audio 9 Professional decoder
> libav:  avdec_wmav1: libav Windows Media Audio 1 decoder
> libav:  avdec_wmav2: libav Windows Media Audio 2 decoder
> libav:  avdec_wmavoice: libav Windows Media Audio Voice decoder
> 
> If you go down the route of linking against ffmpeg or including a
> WMA decoder those of us that package wine in distributions released
> in patent-friendly countries will have to spend time striping out
> that support (if it is not a configure time option).

Did libav drop whatever patent-encumbered code from ffmpeg? If not, I
don't see how this solves any patent issues for distros that care
about it.

Andrew