[vdr] Re: Epia M2 + Budget-card installation

[Michael Hunold <hunold-ml@web.de>]

Hi,

On 29.09.2004 14:55, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:43 +0200, Michael Hunold wrote:
> > It's really sad, because there should really be a LGPL libavcodec based 
> > software-mpeg decoder with DirectFB out there, because it's the thing 
> > you want to have on an EPIA board with a budget DVB card. 8-(
> Slightly OT: I don't know the history behind how softmpeg was made, but
> am curious if reusing the mpeg2 decoder in ogle was considered? 
No, because "libsoftmpeg" should *only* use LGPL libraries, so that it's 
possible to use it in closed-source environments. Besides using 
libavcodec, FusionSound and DirectFB everything was written from scratch 
 in order to prevent licensing issues.

CU
Michael.