This is essential for Windows and OSX, maybe also helpful for some GNU/Linux machines. However, only patent free codecs are allowed in such bundled native libav/ffmpeg.
Usefull resource: http://libav.org/legal.html If we want to bundle libav under the lgpl license we may start by Compile Libav without "--enable-gpl" and without "--enable-nonfree" and then follow the checklist inside the libav legal.html resource.
(In reply to comment #1) > Usefull resource: > http://libav.org/legal.html > > If we want to bundle libav under the lgpl license we may start by > Compile Libav without "--enable-gpl" and without "--enable-nonfree" > and then follow the checklist inside the libav legal.html resource. Ok but it would be fine to provide a script code path to re-enable GPL stuff for people who want to rebuild this feature and who are allowed to use them which is my case as my main project is under GPL v2.
By the way, I would be interested in Aomedia Video 1 more than in WebM...
(In reply to Julien Gouesse from comment #3) > By the way, I would be interested in Aomedia Video 1 more than in WebM... Sounds good and reads quite clean .. https://aomedia.org/av1-features/get-started/ https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/
(In reply to Sven Gothel from comment #4) > (In reply to Julien Gouesse from comment #3) > > By the way, I would be interested in Aomedia Video 1 more than in WebM... > > Sounds good and reads quite clean .. > > https://aomedia.org/av1-features/get-started/ > https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/