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 we
cannot guarantee that the command options would work. It is annoying how
frequent they change the command line options. So, without dropping
gstreamer option, I think that shift from ffmepg to libav is the right way
to go initially.
Greetings
2013/12/12 David <[email protected]>
> 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 change in
> its API commands, change to libav or something completely different?
>
> I've noticed a rising trend in gstreamer. It's an old library which is
> widely used and it seems to have gained momentum in development. It is
> cross platform and it seems to be stable feature and API wise.
> Would it be useful to switch to it? How much work would be needed? Is it
> worth it?
>
> Also, couldn't gstreamer be used for other features in Synfig, like
> audio playback with sync and scrubbing?
>
>
> -David
>
>
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