An interesting discussion between me and Christian about the status of their MPEG2 and MPEG4 GStreamer plugins. Apparantly they will not be ported to Solaris soon due to their dependancy on the IPP library. Not sure if anybody has any ideas to share with Fluendo and Christian about how to possibly make these available sooner. I don't suppose there is an IPP->mediaLib bridge. :)
Brian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fluendo-beta] Solaris beta plugins and new RTP plugin Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:12:14 +0100 From: Christian F.K. Schaller <[email protected]> Reply-To: Fluendo Beta Program mailing list <fluendo-beta at lists.fluendo.com> To: Fluendo Beta Program mailing list <fluendo-beta at lists.fluendo.com> References: <1161965831.1849.16.camel at localhost.localdomain> <45463784.80906 at sun.com> <1162230045.2656.51.camel at localhost.localdomain> <45467085.2060800 at sun.com> Hi, Well the reason is simply that these plugins currently depend on a codec acceleration library from Intel called IPP. This library is not available for Solaris (although they told me Solaris x86 is considered for future versions) which means that to do a port to Solaris of these codecs we would need to do a lot more work on the codec packages to remove this dependency. So until we feel relatively sure that the Solaris market (along with other non-Intel embedded platforms) justifies spending the needed months, such ports will not happen. Christian On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:37 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > Christian: > > > Yeah, I realized I hadn't built the mp3 plugin so I will work on getting > > that in there. As for the other plugins we are unable to support those > > under Solaris at this point in time apart from AC3. My hope is that > > there will be enough commercial interest around the Windows Media > > plugins for Solaris to justify investing in enabling more codecs for the > > platform. > > Would it be okay to explain why you can't support under Solaris? Is it > a resource issue or a licensing issue or something? Will you add AC3 > plugin for Solaris since it sounds like you could do that one. > > Brian > > > > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:33 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > >> Christian: > >> > >> This is awesome. However I notice that the beta site doesn't have an > >> updated MP3 decoder plugin build for Solaris. I think the version for > >> sale on shop.fluendo.com is an old version of the code without some > >> bugfixes and not in package format. Could this be updated? > >> > >> Also, I notice that AC3, MP2video, MP4iso, MP4video, and mpegdemux are > >> not available in the beta test site on Solaris. Is there any reason? > >> Couldn't these be built and provided for Solaris also? I know there > >> is a lot of interest in both MP2 and MP4 from Solaris users. > >> > >> Brian > >> > >>> Ok, I added a full set of Windows Media plugins for Solaris x86 and > >>> SPARC plugins to the beta program today. These plugins comes packaged as > >>> Solaris packages. A big thanks to Brian Cameron and Jerry Tan at Sun for > >>> helping me create and test these. > >>> > >>> I also added our Windows Media RTP plugin for both Linux and Solaris > >>> systems. This plugin works fine, but there is a little more work needed > >>> in playbin to make it work perfectly by default, so for now if you want > >>> to test be sure to read the INSTRUCTIONS.txt file. (I renamed all the > >>> README files to INSTRUCTIONS.txt). > >>> > >>> For linux users there are also new versions of all the Windows Media > >>> plugins. Mostly some potential crashers fixed and also some general code > >>> cleanups. A new feature though is support for things like reverse > >>> playback. Unfortunatly the only application supporting this is the > >>> 'scrubby' test application in GStreamer CVS. But we hope to enable > >>> support for this in newer versions of Elisa soon. > >>> > >>> We are also working on making sure we can support older versions of > >>> GStreamer with these plugins. 0.10.3 is our oldest target currently. > >>> Only plugin which we know will need a newer version of GStreamer is the > >>> RTP one which needs 0.10.10 to work at all and will only work perfectly > >>> with 0.10.11. > >>> > >>> You find the plugins as always at: > >>> https://core.fluendo.com/beta/trac > >>> > -- ------------------------- Business Development Manager Fluendo S.A. Office Phone: +34 933175153
