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anon4 on Dec 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec

Why can't they just build ffmpeg (with only h.264 enabled), instead of their own implementation of h.264?

Sanddancer on Dec 12, 2013 [–]

ffmpeg is lgpl-encumbered. Openh264 is under the much more open BSD license.

dpe82 on Dec 13, 2013 | [–]

For WebRTC they also need an encoder. ffmpeg uses libx264 for encoding H.264, which is GPL.

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