If we open up the can of worms that is FFMPEG we should explore all of our options including moving to using the FFMPEG core directly as a library and even moving away from FFMPEG entirely. Our OpenWatch/KickFlip friends have their own library that loads FFMPEG as a .so and directly interfaces with the library that way instead of via shell commands, so it's worth examining how this works for them.
This is very appealing for a lot of reasons, but won't be a drop in replacement as the internal APIs are totally different than the command line interface. We still haven't firmed up our concrete work plan yet so I'm not sure how much we'll have for something like this though. Our initial focus is definitely on stability and security fundamentals, the broader work plan is going to firm up once we have the needs assessment results back from our partners. -Josh On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've done some nice work on ffmpeg, but it has languished in our own repos, > so now it has bit-rotted and is far from working on recent versions of ffmpeg. > That leaves us stuck on old versions of ffmpeg, and also in charge of > maintaining our version of ffmpeg. Given that there is new StoryMaker and > InformaCam money, I propose to carve out a little to get all that stuff merged > upstream so we don't have to maintain it and others can easily use it. > > Additionally, it would make sense to combine that work with writing a plugin > for ffmpeg to replace the use of sox in StoryMaker. > > .hc > > -- > PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 > _______________________________________________ > Guardian-dev mailing list > > Post: [email protected] > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > > To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] > Or visit: > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/josh%40vitriolix.com > > You are subscribed as: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
