any LGPL encoder for XVID?

[waveking]

Hi,
Is there any LGPL encoder to transcode to XVID format?

What do tools like AutoGK use? I need to create a tool, which does some automated video transcoding. The tool I create will be freely distributed. My tool will not be open source.

[Sharktooth]

you dont need any LGPL licensed encoder unless you want to integrate the xvid code into your tool.
autogk just installs the xvid codec and then it encodes thru virtualdub.
Both Vdub and Xvid are GPL but they're "external" tools.

[waveking]

so can i distribute the installers of these tools also with my application? Such as xvid codec, virtuldub etc? My app setup can install these external tools first, and then my app will merely eexecute them with proper command line arguments and show the output inside the app itself

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi,
Is there any LGPL encoder to transcode to XVID format?

What do tools like AutoGK use? I need to create a tool, which does some automated video transcoding. The tool I create will be freely distributed. My tool will not be open source.

Xvid is not a video format! It is an MPEG-4 ASP Encoder, a piece of Software.
Since the Xvid Software is released under GPL, it's obviously not LGPL and probably won't ever become LGPL.

Nevertheless Xvid is not the only MPEG-4 ASP Encoder in existence, nor is it the only OpenSouce one!
AFAIK the "libavcodec" codecs library (from ffmpeg project) contains it's own MPEG-4 ASP Encoder.
And libavcodec is released under LGPL...

[Sharktooth]

so can i distribute the installers of these tools also with my application? Such as xvid codec, virtuldub etc? My app setup can install these external tools first, and then my app will merely eexecute them with proper command line arguments and show the output inside the app itself
yes. also what lord_mulder said is a viable option.