[maemo-developers] GStreamer video/x-flv support

[From: Hubert Figuiere]

On 07/10/2009 10:06 AM, Artem Semenov wrote:
> It looks like gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-osso library doesn't support FLV
> format at all.
> I've compared gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-osso sources with GStreamer original
> sources and found that many formats are missing in *osso* library.
> Besides, when I run gst-inspect ffmpeg, it says that it has no x-flv
> support

The first clue is that flv is, like many other video codec/format, is
patent encumbered. Therefor it is understandable that Nokia don't want
to ship support for it if they have not cleared it.

Hub