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By an anonymous user on Jun. 10, 2008

There are commercial media conversion tools for conversion between various codecs. You might want to look at On2's Flix, although I believe that is based around FFMpeg as well. Are you planning to ship a software or run a service. If you are planning to ship a software you can still ship ffmpeg as a part of the suite without linking your software to ffmpeg and shipping ffmpeg's source code along with any modifications you made to ffmpeg.

By an anonymous user on Jun. 10, 2008

As long as you don't modify the source code or statically link your code to FFMPEG your commercial product should not be tied to a GPL or LGPL license. If you can get your commercial code to execute FFMPEG behind the scenes simulating a command line event you should be good to distribute your software as long as you clearly state that it uses FFMPEG and the type of license that FFMPEG is running under. And you're only *required* to do that if you're really selling software - not services.

By an anonymous user on Aug. 27, 2008

We are planning to run a service using ffmpeg. Shoud we care about ffmpeg license?

By an anonymous user on Dec. 02, 2008

Yes, There are couple of liscenced softwares, which provides quality convertes. Youtube , 5min, and many other sites use on2 flix engine.

refer following link to get detailed information about all such convertes along with pros & cons.

http://softwareguy82.blogspot.com/2008/10/server-side-video-conversion-v...