On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, July 1, 2012 1:55:55 PM UTC+3, Jonathan Hartley wrote: >> >> I was interested to read this background on ffmpeg & libav. >> >> http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html >> >> I don't know whether this is an unbiased or authoritative account, but >> it was still interesting to me just to find out about the split & its >> contentiousness. > > > There should be a conflict point somewhere, a conflict of interest. Let me > turn on a paranoid bit. If I am not mistaken ffmpeg and libav are both > C/C++. C/C++ is exploitable. I somebody is looking into a way to exploit > many systems to add them to botnet or steal private keys secretly (which is > more interesting nowadays) - attacking ffmpeg is a valid choice IMHO. Now > avbin == Debian/Ubuntu, ffmpeg == everything else. What I am trying to say? > Somebody should start writing non-GPL audio/video decompressors in pure > Python and companies should invest in PyPy to make it beat those ancient > technologies. Then the Earth will be safe again. =) > > Of course looking how codec processes one frame in n seconds could be > boring, but what if the whole decoding process can be visualized with > pyglet? I'd be interesting to see how video structure look like from inside > and play with it instead of drilling through specifications and headers..
I would love to see your visualization of the decoding process, if you ever develop it. :-) ~ Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
