Bug#439897: ffmpeg: Patent holders on mpeg2 encoder

[Christian Marillat]

Package: ffmpeg
Version: 0.cvs20070307-6
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1

Hi,

Surprise that the mpeg2 encoder is still in ffmpeg.

Here is the ffmpeg -formats output.

$ ffmpeg -formats | grep mpeg2                
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-liba52 --enable-libdts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
  built on Jun 23 2007 14:31:53, gcc: 4.1.3 20070601 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-12)
  E mpeg2video      MPEG2 video


The weel know patent holder :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders

Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on:
ii  libavcodec1d            0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d           0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d             0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1+b1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libimlib2               1.3.0.0debian1-4 powerful image loading and renderi
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.11-9         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libswscale1d            0.cvs20070307-6  ffmpeg video scaling library

ffmpeg recommends no packages.

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