Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free?

[Ted Smith]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:13 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm checking ubuntu hardy's vlc source at  
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vlc/vlc_0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1[...],
>  ubuntu 3.3 version, for freedom, and i wonder if the file 
> modules/stream_out/transrate/putvlc.h in the tarball is free. It contains 
> lots of binaries for which i cannot say what they're  
> doing.
> 
> Could someone help us understanding what is it for? Note: this file  
> comes from the MPEG Software Simulation Group.
> 
> Christophe

My best guess is that those are magic numbers related to MPEG decoding.
You could probably confirm/deny that by looking into MPEG decoding or
asking the VLC folk.

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