Is it possible to compile beamcoder with dynamically linked FFmpeg?

[quolpr]

Is it possible to dynamically link FFmpeg? The main reason - is to avoid any LGPL issues(so the user will easily be able to replace dll/dylib files as LGPL requires).

Also, is there any possibilities that this project will be not under GPL, but maybe under LGPL?

Thanks!

[sparkpunkd]

We would like to provide similar licensing conditions to FFmpeg itself. Ideally, the license of beamcoder should depend on what you link to when building FFmpeg. The only reason that we have not is time and priority.

• Technically, you can drop in any DLL/dylib/so file of FFmpeg and beamcoder auto discovers the available codecs, formats etc..
• Practically, our primary use case was x264 and x265 (which are both GPL v3) encoding on Windows, so we built a system that downloads a GPL-3.0 pre-compiled DLL, so we did the right thing and licensed beamcoder GPL v3.

I expect the licensing of beamcoder will become more permissive and flexible, but it is not our priority.