Notes On The Future of Video on Linux

Dina's Dream points out two interesting articles currently running on LinuxPower, and linked from Gnotices (GNOME news site) as well. "The first article is a really good summary of the current state of affairs of video under Linux and the direction we should take. Questions are bounced back between a few very knowledgeable people, including GStreamer developers, SGI people and Alan Cox. The second article is a set of lessons learned by Chris Pirazzi while working at SGI. Chris was involved in a lot of Video API programming at Silicon Graphics, and raises a few very good points based on his experience. All people even remotely working on video drivers or software should read these points and take them to heart."

Comments

Re:Whatever happened to Broadcast 2000?

[qqtortqq]

Its interesting you mention broadcast2000. I used to use it, but gave up due to crashes and things, but it was a neat program if they ever got the bugs out of it.

From: http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3

After a long period of deliberation on the matter, Broadcast 2000 has been removed from public access due to excessive liability.

We've already seen several organizations win lawsuits against GPL/ warranty free software writers because of damage that software caused to the organization. Several involved the RIAA vs mp3/p2p software writers. Several involved the MPAA vs media player authors. You might say that warranty exemption has become quite meaningless in today's economy.

Fucking dmca....

Re:DivX ;-)

[MartinG]

Interesting. I hadn't seen vp3.2 before.
I notice their license is derived from the Mozilla Public License 1.1
Can anyone comment on whether that is good or bad news? eg. will the gstreamer folks be able to include vp3.2 codec support and distribute it as a plugin?