On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:29:53PM +0100, Tomas Groth wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you has no doubt experienced, or read on this list, ffmpeg is the > root of many problems. To be more precise, the ever changing API is rather > annoying, because it makes it very hard to support older and newer versions at > the same time, and still remain sane. So to solve this issue some proposals > has > been put forward that we would like to share with you. > > 1) Include ffmpeg in gnash. > pros: No more need to support old and outdated versions of ffmpeg. (Wohoo!) > cons: There might be some IP/patent-issues... We'll need to keep our own > ffmpeg-tree up to date.
+con: simply upgrading ffmpeg won't make Gnash run better. > 2) Help the ffmpeg-team to do some periodic releases. > pros: The whole world will start celebrating, because finally ffmpeg has > releases! Gnash can require real release versions, instead of svn numbers. > cons: In the short term it's still the same mess. Helping out with > ffmpeg-releases is going to require a lot of time! (any volunteer?) +pros: we would probably not be alone > 3) Keep on as always. > pros: None. > cons: same mess as now. > > In a perfect world I'd vote for option 2, but for now I'm voting for option 1, > but what about you? I vote for *inspecting* option 2 by mailing ffmpeg devel list to gather some information about that past effort. Can't give a final vote w/out knowing how big would the effort for helping managing releases would be. --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
