I personally backup Pro's questions
I'm not a Pro when it comes to Licensing issues but it would seem fair that you would build an open (not source
) wrapper that could use any codec DLLs out there.
1 - Would YOU need to pay MEPG-LA or the codec company any fees?
2 - What about us, users of your wrapper?
3 - Would we need to pay anybody (besides yourself, should you find it appropriate
) any fees for using just the wrapper?
Let's face it: we're not babies anymore, otherwise we wouldn't be here at an Advanced forum.
There is nothing that could prevent us from building the code for ffmpeg sources and using it with KVCDEnc, for instance.
We wouldn't even need to host the binaries.
We could just have a very detailed post on how to build sources and we wouldn't even have to relate it with ffmpeg or anything.
That is if 1,2 and 3 are negative, of course.
Hell, after all they even distribute them in MEncoder at the project's official site...
I would hate to see this project die
And that's what it seems to be happening
Just my 0.02€
Cheers