Sounds good! On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:46 PM, SiegeLord <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I spent the past 4 days trying to fix the various issues with the > ffmpeg backend (firstly, it doesn't compile due to being so out of date, > but even if that's fixed, it produces static for most videos due to broken > audio handling, seeking doesn't work, pausing doesn't work, etc.) and I > came to the conclusion that the best solution is to just throw it away and > rewrite the code in its entirety. > > My plan for the rewrite is actually to move most of the theora code (which > works a lot better and is a lot simpler to understand than ffmpeg's) into > the generic video code, and then implement the ffmpeg support on top of > that, so the complicated seeking and synchronization code is shared between > the two backends. > > That will take time, and I meanwhile I don't want to spend more time > fixing the current broken code. Leaving it in as is also seems like a bad > idea. So I propose just completely removing it for now, with the intention > to add it back in using the strategy outlined above. I do want to add it > back in, and then seriously look into packaging it on Windows, as I think > theora is a terrible video format and ffmpeg would be of great use. I can't > imagine this will inconvenience anyone, as the current code is just broken. > > Any opinions on this? > > _______________________________________________ > Allegro-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/allegro-developers >
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