On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 11:21 -0600, Alex Christensen wrote: > I know there are several companies who don't even want to mess with > the licenses of GStreamer or FFmpeg. GStreamer's license isn't a > problem, but I'm not sure how legally safe the plugins are.
That's right. If you need support for those problematic codecs there are some companies that can provide them. > They certainly don't have an indemnification clause in their > licenses. The dlls are still large compared to WebKit, and I've had > trouble compiling them from source and debugging them on Windows. The > distributed versions from freedesktop.org also use a version of > libsoup that is too old to use as the network backend for WebKit. I'd > also like to remove the requirement of installing GStreamer to build > and run the unmodified WinCairo port to make it easier for people who > don't know much about WebKit to build and run it. > Those issues can likely be fixed. A lot of effort was invested in easing the build of GStreamer for windows and Mac OSX. There are still some bugs to iron out though. > I'm not saying that GStreamer is out of the question in the future, > but I think there are more reasons to switch than to stay right now. > That's alright I understand your concerns. Philippe > > Alex Christensen > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Philippe Normand <ph...@igalia.com> > wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 18:29 -0600, Alex Christensen wrote: > > I'm working on a Media Foundation implementation of > MediaPlayerPrivate > > to replace the GStreamer-based one we're currently using. > Media > > Foundation avoids the licensing issues of GStreamer > > > Which licensing issues? You'd be surprised to know the actual > number and > variety of products that use GStreamer nowadays. > > > and the ~100MB of GStreamer dlls which need to be installed > in a > > certain directory. MediaFoundation is included since > Windows Vista. > > > > > Those dlls can certainly be reduced. I'm no Windows expert but > there are > ways to reduce the size of the gst shared libs in Linux > (disabling debug > is one). > > > > > I'm pretty sure I'm the only one working on or using > WinCairo video, > > but I hope to make the switch later this week unless someone > wants to > > maintain GStreamer on Windows. > > > > > Philippe > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > > > > -- > > > > > Alex Christensen > > FlexSim Software Products, Inc. > > 1577 North Technology Way | Building A | Suite 2300 | Orem, Utah 84097 > > Voice: 801-224-6914 | Fax: 801-224-6984 > > Email: al...@flexsim.com > > URL: www.flexsim.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message may contain confidential information, and is intended > > only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev