Hey Benjamin. On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:29 +0000, Benjamin Otte wrote: > Peter Gordon <peter <at> thecodergeek.com> writes: > > > Unfortunately, swfdec's dependency on ffmpeg/libmad for multimedia > > decoding means that it cannot intrinsically be part of some distributions > > such as Fedora without being hosted in a third-party repository of some > > sort; and the current Gstreamer stack in swfdec does not work nearly as > > well as does ffpmeg/libmad. For one, YouTube videos (from my very brief > > testing with 0.5.3) play without sound and often freeze the X session > > entirely. :( > > > > Would this mean that its Gstreamer support would be heavily improved > > or perhaps even become the main playback focus for videos? That would be > > *awesome*. :) > > > The current GStreamer has some serious issues with the way Swfdec wants to use > it. I'll gladly go into details about why, but I guess this is the wrong place > to discuss this. The solution the GStreamer guys did for this was > appsrc/appsink, however there's no release yet which uses it, and it looks > like > the next release will not have it either. > > So in short: Yes, we'd like to improve GStreamer decoding options, but it's > just > not possible.
I think that using GStreamer for playback would be a must for swfdec to be accepted as a blessed dependency (and thus swfdec-gnome added to the desktop). We've been through not allowing other playback engines in the past, so I don't think we can let swfdec change that position. I hope you can work with the GStreamer guys to get the technical problems sorted out. Having bugs filed or discussions started on mailing-lists about the problems you've seen would also help the community see that efforts are being made in that direction. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
