Re: [rtcweb] H.261

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Mon, 02 December 2013 19:56 UTC

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On 11/22/13 22:45, Mo Zanaty (mzanaty) wrote:
> All major distros including Debian already include x264, ffmpeg, etc.
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/x264

Wait, what?

Why would Linux distros care whether they can include the Cisco library 
when they already distribute an H.264 encoder library? Is there some 
reason they would *need* two different encoders?

/a