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Re: WoPo Video That Does Not Work



Quoting 'Christian Peeples' via BerkeleyLUG (berkeleylug@googlegroups.com):

> Thank you Michael.  It is great to have someone who knows all the programs.

The reason Chromium doesn't come by default with extensions to run
FFmpeg codecs is that Chromium is open source software, and Google is 
taking no chances about A/V and compression patents encumbering it.

Although FFmpeg _per se_ is LGPL with some optional components GPL, many
of the codecs are covered by restrictive software patents.
(Unfortunately, A/V and data compression have always been, and probably
always will be, patent hotspots.)  Hence, maybe with extremely rare (and
bold!) exceptions -- but I don't know of any -- Linux distros do not
include FFmpeg by default.  On some distros, you can't even get binary
packages of it from package repos.

https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

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