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Free/Open h.264 video decoding libraries? (Non-GPL)

The main players seem to be x264, and xvid, and both are GPL. This means we can't integrate decoding capabilities into a playback application without licensing the whole thing as GPL, so we can't use either.

The preferred target platform is Linux. Any non-viral open license is fine, we're more than happy to provide the source of any changes we make to libraries, just not our whole application.

Is there anything? Or maybe we should use GPL for now as a test during development, and plan to replace it with commercially licensed codec before shipping?

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Mark Renouf Avatar asked Mar 21 '09 00:03

Mark Renouf


1 Answers

The ffmpeg H.264 decoder is LGPL. Only the encoders are GPL, and x264 does not provide a decoder.

It also has the advantage over Framewave and IPP of actually being usable.

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alex strange Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 22:09

alex strange