FFmpeg and the LGPL

The Manything security camera app

The Manything security camera app, for use on IP cameras, NVRs and DVRs uses FFmpeg to send video to the Manything cloud. FFmpeg is not used to encode the video. The FFmpeg library is included under LGPL 2.1.

Information about FFmpeg in use

The FFmpeg source code has not been modified in any way.

What version of FFmpeg is used?

The Manything security camera app has been built with FFmpeg Version 3.4.2 You can download version 3.4.2 of FFmpeg by clicking  here.

How was FFmpeg compiled?

The FFmpeg library was compiled with the following build flags:

• --disable-stripping
• --disable-debug
• --enable-shared
• --disable-everything
• --enable-parser=h264,aac
• --enable-decoder=h264,aac
• --enable-protocol=tcp,udp,file
• --enable-demuxer=rtsp
• --enable-muxer=rtsp,mp4
• --disable-ffplay
• --disable-ffprobe
• --disable-ffserver
• --disable-doc
• --disable-avdevice

Which bits of FFmpeg are in use?

When we built the FFmpeg library we did not use '-enable-gpl' and did not use '-enable-nonfree'

Eula conditions

We have modified our EULA to exclude reverse engineering limitations on versions that include this library, we have modified our EULA to mention FFmpeg as requested by them.

The Manything smartphone apps

The Manything iOS and Android app uses a library from Real Time Libs to provide the live viewing functionality. Real Time Libs have told us that their library in turn is linked with FFmpeg which is open source. Therefore we have set up this page to meet the conditions associated with the LGPL 2.1 that cover the bits of FFMPEG that we are using.

Information about FFmpeg in use

Real Time Libs have confirmed that FFmpeg was not modified in any way

What version of FFmpeg is used?

Real Time Libs have informed us that their library includes Version 2.4. You can download version 2.4 of FFmpeg by clicking here.

How was FFmpeg compiled?

Real Time Libs provided the compilation options of FFmpeg which they used and these are shown below :

• --disable-doc
• --disable-ffmpeg
• --disable-ffserver
• --disable-ffprobe
• --disable-ffplay
• --disable-bzlib 
• --enable-static
• --arch=armv6
• --enable-cross-compile
• --target-os=darwin
• --disable-asm
• --disable-everything 
• --enable-protocol=file
• --enable-protocol=rtmp
• --enable-demuxer=mov
• --enable-muxer=flv
• --enable-pic
• --enable-librtmp

Which bits of FFmpeg are in use?

Real Time libs have confirmed in writing to us that they did not use '-enable-gpl' and did not use '-enable-nonfree'.

Eula conditions

We have modified our EULA to exclude reverse engineering limitations on versions that include this library, we have modified our EULA to mention FFmpeg as requested by them.