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

[From: Stephen Gadsby]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Hubert Figuiere<hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> On 07/10/2009 10:06 AM, Artem Semenov wrote:
> 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.

Well, AVC and older, Spark video can legally be supported by the
Internet Tablets out of the box. Spark is h.263 is MPEG-4 Visual with
Short Header. As Nokia pays MPEG LA for the MPEG-4 Visual License,
they get licensed for h.263 for "free".

It's just VP6 that's a problem.

   -stephen