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| On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: > Wikipedia says, "x264 is a free software library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format." > > What is this voodoo about paying $299? x264 is free under the GPL, so only other free software can use it for free. But x264 can also be licensed under a commercial license, which that product must be using. So they send the x264 people royalties for every copy sold or something. One could make a free x264 plug-in and license it under the GPL. But that would take some work. Maybe another Kickstarter project? Actually, it should be possible to make an FFmpeg plug-in for Premiere/Media Encoder - one that would support all the formats FFmpeg does. Again, would take some work, and have to be freely licensed under the GPL. Brendan |
