Peter Gordon <peter <at> thecodergeek.com> writes: > Unfortunately, swfdec's dependency on ffmpeg/libmad for multimedia > decoding means that it cannot intrinsically be part of some distributions > such as Fedora without being hosted in a third-party repository of some > sort; and the current Gstreamer stack in swfdec does not work nearly as > well as does ffpmeg/libmad. For one, YouTube videos (from my very brief > testing with 0.5.3) play without sound and often freeze the X session > entirely. :( > > Would this mean that its Gstreamer support would be heavily improved > or perhaps even become the main playback focus for videos? That would be > *awesome*. :) > The current GStreamer has some serious issues with the way Swfdec wants to use it. I'll gladly go into details about why, but I guess this is the wrong place to discuss this. The solution the GStreamer guys did for this was appsrc/appsink, however there's no release yet which uses it, and it looks like the next release will not have it either.
So in short: Yes, we'd like to improve GStreamer decoding options, but it's just not possible. Benjamin _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list