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hehe can call me stupid, I have thick skin, I'm just throwing it out there. I'm guessing they don't license them, but I'm wondering if this is also normal in the mainstream world? I don't think many people realize they're supposed to license even MP3 from Fraunhoffer or whatever if they use that for audio in their FLV files.
There are 2 levels of licensing for video codecs usually, one for people who want to use it to encode/decode (such as ffmpeg is using it) and one for people who want to distribute movies with that encoding standard.
I'm pretty sure ffmpeg just does FLV and doesn't use for example VP6, because on2 may actually go after people?
The newly adopted H.264 also requires licensing and isn't FLV, so that's another bag of worms too. I think in that case they just want the major players to license, and let the average joe use it without fear.
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