Bug#439897: ffmpeg: Patent holders on mpeg2 encoder

[Christian Marillat]

severity 439897 serious
thanks

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

>
>         Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> Surprise that the mpeg2 encoder is still in ffmpeg.
> [...]
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders
>
>  Virtually any non-trivial program infringes some patents; my
>  understanding is that the current policy is to disable functionality
>  infringing *actively enforced* patents.
>
>  If you have some information on active enforcement of the MPEG 2
>  patents by the patents holders, please send them to this bug report.

This one and certainly more.

http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_07-01-03_pr.pdf

Christian