Thanks Dark Shikari. Instead of discussing the intricacies of dissassembly and software licenses, let me just say that this will save me hours of thoroughly entertaining chit chat with our legal team in the morning
Gabriel: We don't have FGM yet. Perhaps a discussion of features the x264 team is interested in working on and the order that they want to accomplish them might make for an interesting (but separate) thread. It's important to keep in mind that we're in the middle of preparing the future generation of DivX right now and we often can't elaborate too much on our roadmap ("Hey! Here's a super-fast H.264 decoder. Surprise!"), but there are times where we can aim to align our work to support other projects. If we can understand your priorities we can build a better codec. Thanks for your work on LAME btw.