Hi, I have a report at my job in which i am to present on video codecs. The report is to briefly give an overview/popularity assessment on video codecs that the product(a networked Dvd player) the company wants to make should support. Right now we support all the major ones such as Divx XX, and H.264. i am wondering if we need to support the legacy codecs such as Indeo 3.2 and Cinepak radius etc..Does anyone still use these codecs?? i want to make sure that the product supports any available codec but due to limitations we have to make choices. So what is your opinion? Support legacy codecs or no??
Well if you were to use libavcodec for decoding then you would get DivX, h.264 and indeo 3.2 decoding support. If you use it as a DLL rather than linking to the lib then there is no need for your software to be GPL/LGPL. Personally if I want legacy support, I stick with MPEG1 never indeo, cinepak, etc. but who know what old stuff other people still have floating around.
