xawtv: legal question

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>>
>> the 2 4mpeg formats definetely are a patent problem,
> Note, that "yuv4mpeg" is not "mpeg" itself, it is "for mpeg" (4mpeg). 
> It is really a sequence of uncompressed YUV 4:2:0 images... IMHO it 
> was designed to "prepare raw stream for mjpegtools".
>> mjpeg OTOH is fine.
> Since it is just a sequence of jpeg images?
>> I don't know what the status as a container format is.
> avi seems to be OK (already used in Core's dvgrab and Extras' xine-lib )
>
>
> But to be sure, could anyone confirm these my assumptions? :)

Well, it seems all is OK for this...

Submit for review: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/230762


Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy