Microsoft FFmpegInterop library for Windows

https://github.com/Microsoft/FFmpegInterop

by ingve • 10 years ago

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joshavant• 10 years ago

I find these first-party interop libraries from Microsoft really interesting, in light of the fact that Oracle v. Google is still ongoing.

Depending on how that case finally comes back, I'd expect that could really affect Microsoft's strategy, here.

endianswap• 10 years ago

Can you elaborate what you mean? What risk is there to what Microsoft is doing?

keeperofdakeys• 10 years ago

If APIs are copywritable, then the GP2.1 license of ffmpeg would apply to this library, which is only licensed under the Apache license.

This issue has popped up a number of times for Linux kernel modules, and at what point they are a derived work - https://lwn.net/Articles/13398/. Here is an email thread concerning this http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html.

magicalist• 10 years ago

Depending on how that case finally comes back, I'd expect that could really affect Microsoft's strategy, here

Remember that because there were originally patent claims in the suit, the appeal went to the Federal Circuit -- even though the patent claims were dropped -- not the Ninth Circuit where the district court is located. As a result, the Federal Circuit's ruling that APIs are not uncopyrightable is not precedent since it doesn't concern patents (the Federal Circuit's remit).

Their reasoning might influence future rulings, but precedence-wise the ruling has no bearing on the future of copyright on APIs in the US.

edit: the EFF has a little more detail:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/bad-news-supreme-court...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/eff-stands-innovative-...

stevehiehn• 10 years ago

Isn't this a wrapper lib? If its just calling public APIs I can't see a problem with that.

mkesper• 10 years ago

Title should spell Microsoft correctly.

baldfat2• 10 years ago

I really am liking these Microsoft projects. FFMPEG on Windows would make so many thing MUCH easier for my Audio and Video Projects. Right now ffmpeg on Windows is hit or miss for me currently.

milkey_mouse• 10 years ago

FFmpeg on the command line on Windows has been fine for me every time I use it, using the Zeranoe builds. They seem to come with the right codecs and everything.

baldfat2• 10 years ago

Those are the ones I also use and it hasn't been flawless for me, BUT I tend to do a TON of video for professional production (Happens only a few times a year). I get hiccups that I don't know everyone would really notice or care about, but is HUGE for my purposes.

Edit: Works Flawlessly in Linux.

cm2187• 10 years ago

I do too. The only thing I miss is QuickSync support. But I don't feel brave enough to come up with my own build.

rossy• 10 years ago

I have never had any trouble with FFmpeg on Windows. Even building it from source or building programs that use it is pretty foolproof with MSYS2. FFmpeg also has Windows specific features like DXVA for video decoding and (recently) Schannel for TLS.

It seems like this library is specifically for integrating FFmpeg with the built-in classes for video playback in Windows Store apps, but you don't have to use those classes to use FFmpeg on Windows.

cbd19842• 10 years ago

Who's Mircosoft?

chris_wot2• 10 years ago

Dang, you about? Typo! Mircosoft...

dang• 10 years ago

Better late than never?

chris_wot2• 10 years ago

:-) always appreciated, well by me at any rate!

Microsoft FFmpegInterop library for Windows

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