title: Free/Open h.264 video decoding libraries? (Non-GPL)
body: <p>The main players seem to be x264, and xvid, and both are GPL. This means we can't integrate decoding capabilities into a playback application without licensing the whole thing as GPL, so we can't use either. </p>
  
  <p>The preferred target platform is Linux. Any non-viral open license is fine, we're more than happy to provide the source of any changes we make to libraries, just not our whole application.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything? Or maybe we should use GPL for now as a test during development, and plan to replace it with commercially licensed codec before shipping?</p>