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dejai
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AVI READERS / Engin e

Post by dejai »

Hello does anyone know of a good AVI Reader Library, Or Engine which is Open Source?
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The ffmpeg project has some libraries for reading/writing a lot video formats. It should be able to handle most avi formats.
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Post by Midnight »

I thought that was related to the whole copyright mesh involved with video formats.. is it free for commercial use without royalty?

I've been looking for something like that if anyone knows of one.

edit: I read the lisence on this again.. appears this is where I got the above information..

it appears that using ffmpeg is fine if you avoid mpeg related things because they will almost definatly seek royalties... but I imagine rendering a simple avi movie would pass unnoticed in most cases or that nobody owns a patent capable of sueing you... at any rate the case always remains that someone can claim a software patent that doesn't even exist and ruin you in legal entanglement for years if they choose.
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