Free/Open h.264 video decoding libraries? (Non-GPL)
Cisco released a BSD-licensed h264 library for encoding and decoding.
I wish you would just use GPL, but I'm not going to just tell you to do that when there is an answer out there.
http://www.openh264.org/
and the GitHub page:
https://github.com/cisco/openh264
IANAL, but if you're shipping anywhere software patents are enforced, not only do you have to pay the MPEG LA royalties for h.264 decoding, but the license might preclude you from using the open-source decoders anyhow. I've heard of similar annoyances applying to other codecs.