Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:55:46 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Dries Michiels <driesmp@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org" <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change default port options for ffmpeg Message-ID: <CAN6yY1svNEWYj31__Rb5g2edbnn7POoVaQauo_80vYVLXZC_jA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <HE1PR1001MB1243CC637F84287D8CF4541ABB2A0@HE1PR1001MB1243.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> References: <HE1PR1001MB1243CC637F84287D8CF4541ABB2A0@HE1PR1001MB1243.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Dries Michiels <driesmp@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear Multimedia Mailing List, > > With the increasing popularity of emby-server. > Is it possible to change the default port options of ffmpeg to be > compatible with emby-server. > > https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html > > As can be seen from the URL, some port options need be enabled to provide > full functionality for emby-server. > However, maybe not all options are as critical to be enabled (such as SBM, > why is it used? Or not?), food for though. > > With regards, > Dries > The big issue here is licensing. ffmpeg is gpl2 with lgpl2 on the libraries and the default build is gpl2/lgpl2, but sme of these options are non-free. libass is ISCL. I believe it is more "free" than gpl2, so that looks OK. Ditto BSD licensed opus. lame may stillb e fuzzy. lame, itself, is gpl, but it is not fully clear that mp3 is entirely unencubered these days. Most seem to agree that it is, but I am unsure of the official FreeBSD position, if any. x265 is clearly non-free and the resulting build is not remotely gpl/lgpl compliant. So it looks to me like most of these options are OK, but IANAL, so there may be good reasons not to mix these licenses. There is clearly a good reason not to include x265. SMB is messy as it pulls in a LOT of stuff that many people won't need or use, so I can also see making this an option, but I assume it's entirely a maintainer option. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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