Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Callum Prentice (Callum)
Thanks Nicky - lots of info there for me to look at. On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Nicky Perian wrote: > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/OPEN-151 > Dated from when fmod went to fmodex > Kokua used gstreamer for streaming for windows, but went to fmodex because > of

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Nicky Perian
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/OPEN-151 Dated from when fmod went to fmodex Kokua used gstreamer for streaming for windows, but went to fmodex because of code being out of date with plugins. Specfic to this was not playing some stream rates. I could set Kokua back to gstreamer but would need

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Cinder Roxley
On May 16, 2016 at 4:03:29 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) (cal...@lindenlab.com ) wrote:   Do you know if anyone has made a Windows or OS X version of it ? ​    I made an attempt three years ago, got it working on OS X. Got frustrated with mingw and moved on to

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Callum Prentice (Callum)
> > Do you know if anyone has made a Windows or OS X version of it ? > ​ > > > I made an attempt three years ago, got it working on OS X. Got frustrated > with mingw and moved on to something else. I know the Imprudence team had > some success with replacing both FMOD and Quicktime with

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Cinder Roxley
On May 16, 2016 at 3:41:47 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) (cal...@lindenlab.com ) wrote: Gstreamer is probably your best bet just based on the friendliness of the developer community when asking questions and gstreamer being somewhat more focused on being an

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Cinder Roxley
On May 16, 2016 at 3:39:53 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) (cal...@lindenlab.com ) wrote: ​​  My knowledge about libVLC is rather outdated I would say, however it should be able to play quicktime/MOV files so I'm pretty sure it's a bug somewhere. ​  ​Investigating

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Callum Prentice (Callum)
> > > Gstreamer is probably your best bet just based on the friendliness of the > developer community when asking questions and gstreamer being somewhat more > focused on being an intuitive framework to integrate into an application. > However, libvlc has a much simpler api which makes it faster

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Callum Prentice (Callum)
> > > ​​ > My knowledge about libVLC is rather outdated I would say, however it > should be able to play quicktime/MOV files so I'm pretty sure it's a bug > somewhere. > ​ ​Investigating now - the source of test material when I wrote the original QuickTime plugin was the Apple movie trailers site

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Cinder Roxley
Gstreamer is probably your best bet just based on the friendliness of the developer community when asking questions and gstreamer being somewhat more focused on being an intuitive framework to integrate into an application. However, libvlc has a much simpler api which makes it faster to

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Dax Dupont
​Hello, My knowledge about libVLC is rather outdated I would say, however it should be able to play quicktime/MOV files so I'm pretty sure it's a bug somewhere. No experience with gstreamer but if i remember when we were arguing for replacements a while back that there was a concern about

[opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

2016-05-16 Thread Callum Prentice (Callum)
As many of you know, support for playing media in Second Life using QuickTime is being removed after Apple announced in April 2016 that they have no further plans to provide security updates for QuickTime for Windows. This email is intended to be a solicitation for feedback and review of a