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• Electron, Chromium and ffmpeg licencing confusion [closed]

  12 mars 2021, par Iamisti

  Intro :
Recently I'm working on an electron based application that is free to use but also has subscription based services.
It came to my attention that ffmpeg is shipped with electron, which has GPL/LGPL licence.

  


  My quetion is :

  


  

  • Am I legally able to still distribute the application and be licence-compliant with ffmpeg without owning any proper licence to it ? I thought chromium dealt with the licencing on this topic since so many applications nowadays are shipped with using electron and chromium under the hood.

  


  • How do I compile/build electron to make it licence compatible (in case its not ?)

  


  


  I did a lot of reseearch and I found out the followings :

  


  


  • ffmpeg is shipped with chromium, they built their own version of ffmpeg and it seems they also have licence for it. Although that might be that they just push the responsibility down on the software developer/company who distributes their application with chromium.
Chromium licence for ffmpeg : https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg/+/703e920bb75053bf6b87d41d198cbbfbce3fb7ad/LICENSE

    


  


  • Apparently ffmpeg has a checklist of how to be licence compliant. Does that mean if I do all these steps, I can still distribute the application and can legally use it ? Licence checklist for ffmpeg : http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

    


  


  • checking out some popular electron applications like Discord, Figma, Slack, etc... they ALL have ffmpeg included cause of electron when you install them. I wonder how they made it legal ? I don't see any of these checklists done on any of these popular applications.

    


  


  


  I'm know very little regarding licences, so any help would be incredibly huge help for me.

  


• Android : mp4 file plays when downloaded but when choosing "Video" player gets "Cannot play video"

  11 juillet 2019, par gview

  I’ve converted the video to an mp4 with ffmpeg using the h264 codec and AAC, and used the baseline profile.

  Videos are 540x360x250kbps

  I then ran qt-faststart on the file to move the atoms into the right order.

  I’ve stuck the file up on a wiki we use and created a link to it.

  My test phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3.

  When I browse to the page that has links to the mp4’s on it, and I click on them, I get a popup window with 2 options : Internet and Video.

  If I download the videos using the "Internet" option, I can play them on the phone without issue.

  I’ve done other encodings with the main profile as well, and these also play fine. I thought that a powerful phone like the s3 would be able to handle the more advanced compression schemes available in h264, however I’ve also browsed the Android docs in regards to supported video formats, and it seems to state that only the "baseline" compression profile is supported.

  Regardless, what doesn’t work is trying to use the "Video" option which I assume tries to stream the video.

  For the wiki in question, clicking on the link reveals that the content-type and content-length headers are being set :

  Content-Length  6175996
  
  Content-Type    video/mp4;charset=UTF-8

  Clicking on the link with a browser invokes a player (Quicktime in most cases) that can play the mp4’s.

  Is there more to having the file HTTP streamable beyond making a link to it ? Why won’t my Android 4 play these files ?

  UPDATE :
  I decided to make a quick HTML5 page using the video tag, and the videos do play on both my Galaxy S3 and the latest IOS.

• Android : mp4 file plays when downloaded but when choosing "Video" player gets "Cannot play video"

  14 janvier 2014, par gview

  I've converted the video to an mp4 with ffmpeg using the h264 codec and AAC, and used the baseline profile.

  Videos are 540x360x250kbps

  I then ran qt-faststart on the file to move the atoms into the right order.

  I've stuck the file up on a wiki we use and created a link to it.

  My test phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3.

  When I browse to the page that has links to the mp4's on it, and I click on them, I get a popup window with 2 options : Internet and Video.

  If I download the videos using the "Internet" option, I can play them on the phone without issue.

  I've done other encodings with the main profile as well, and these also play fine. I thought that a powerful phone like the s3 would be able to handle the more advanced compression schemes available in h264, however I've also browsed the Android docs in regards to supported video formats, and it seems to state that only the "baseline" compression profile is supported.

  Regardless, what doesn't work is trying to use the "Video" option which I assume tries to stream the video.

  For the wiki in question, clicking on the link reveals that the content-type and content-length headers are being set :

  Content-Length  6175996
  
  Content-Type    video/mp4;charset=UTF-8

  Clicking on the link with a browser invokes a player (Quicktime in most cases) that can play the mp4's.

  Is there more to having the file HTTP streamable beyond making a link to it ? Why won't my Android 4 play these files ?

  UPDATE :
  I decided to make a quick HTML5 page using the video tag, and the videos do play on both my Galaxy S3 and the latest IOS.