[M4IF Technotes] mp4tool

[Jean-Claude Dufourd]

Dear Nico,
Nico Oorts wrote:
> What I like to do with your mp4tool is to convert a .bt  into a scene 
> track and an OD track.  After this I would like to include them into 
> an mp4 file. It would be easy if you can supply us with some library 
> and a little bit of documentation. Is there already some simple 
> license available? Thanks.

Sorry for not answering you sooner.
Though it would not be so difficult for us to produce such a package 
from mp4tool, we are very busy and even giving software away creates 
*always* a lot of work. And there is the question of  licencing.
I'll work on it on the technical side, but I welcome suggestions for the 
distribution: is there a way to say in the mp4tool library licence that 
we have not paid the MPEG licence so you have to pay it ? Basically, we 
cannot both give the software away and pay the licence. We may have to 
withdraw mp4tool from free download.
Open source is not a possibility for us, and the free distribution of 
mpeg4ip is only tolerated, they do not really have the right.
So help on a free (or cheap) distribution scheme appreciated.
Best regards
JC