On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:33, William Penton wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 11:26, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > You can always try the Free Software implementations :) > > > > swfdec > > flash > > > where and how can i get those packages? > > -william Unfortunately the free software implementations are currently almost unusable because they lack important functionality, and we never will be able to have all functionality because doing so would violate several patents. The ones that I know about are Fraunhofer (sp?) and Sorenson. There are undoubtedly more. It is my understanding that swfdec depends on libmad (MP3 codec), so in any country with software patents it is incompatible with the LGPL license that it is published under. Warren
