I'm doing some research for an article on patent unencumbered Open Source software at https://schoolforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Patents_and_Open_Source I'm interested in finding patent unencumbered audio and video software and Fedora seems like the best source for that. I've been looking at the source code for xine-lib-1.1.21-pruned.tar.xz. Are there any plans to add webm support? Was trying to determine whether it would be easier to use the webm code from the latest version of xine in source control at Sourceforge and back port it to xine-lib-1.1.21 or to create a new pruned copy based on the latest version. Am also interested in whether smpeg might be useable if all code related to mp3 was eliminated. Would like to find other useful audio and/or video programs that are patent unencumbered that could be recommended as options for educators at Schoolforge. Anyone working on similar audio/video projects for Fedora? Would be interested in comparing notes and possibly source code.
Thanks.