Re: [Synfig-devl] ffmpeg/gstreamer

2013-12-12 Thread Konstantin Dmitriev
For your information, libav doesn't supports all features of ffmpeg. And Fedora uses Ffmpeg, not libav fork. ^__^ In any case, I don't feel any problems with ffmpeg since the latest 0.64.1. K. 2013/12/12 Carlos López González : > I can't give one opinion with knowledge about gstreamer. It is the s

Re: [Synfig-devl] ffmpeg/gstreamer

2013-12-12 Thread Carlos López González
I can't give one opinion with knowledge about gstreamer. It is the standard tool for video and audio handling in Gnome and the logic says to me that we should use it (at last in Linux). But what I'm sure is about to get ride of ffmpeg. Calling an external executable is always a risky operation and

[Synfig-devl] ffmpeg/gstreamer

2013-12-12 Thread David
FFmpeg doesn't feel like the robust swiss army knife of video it used to be. It changes it's API often and there is the fork into libav which seems widely used by Ubuntu and others. It looks like the future of FFmpeg is quite unclear. Should Synfig continue using it, adopting to every new random