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Dave is 100% correct. It is unlikely we will have DOVI support for anything except direct play until the patents expire. One of the biggest changes in our fork is the ability to compile codecs into shared libraries which can be delivered on demand. This allows us to track and serve up the licensed codecs as needed to keep licensing fees from skyrocketing. This cannot be achieved via a wrapper and is very unlikely to be accepted upstream. There are also changes that were needed in order to comply with our licensing agreement with dolby which have similar issues.

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