Hi Richard, Sure, I've emailed the patch to Scott and will work on a writeup for others that want to do something similar! (Minor point, is the wiki source in standard MediaWiki style or something else?)
Kirill - I think I'll take your suggestion next and start looking at upgrading the existing native components to the latest version of GStreamer before I look at adding any more plugins, that would seem to make sense. Have you any pointers in how best to approach this? Many thanks, Michael On 25 March 2014 23:46, Richard Bair <richard.b...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Turns out it was a stupid mistake on my part causing the last few linking > > errors, I hadn't added one of the C files I needed to the makefile (well > I > > had, but I'd then reverted it again without realising!) Thanks to all for > > the prods and advice. > > > > Once I'd done that, the build went through without a hitch - and then it > > was just a case of making the relevant additions to the native code to > > register the MKV type and create a pipeline from it using the plugin. > This > > wasn't hard to work out at all; I've since tried several test files in > MKV > > format (with AAC audio) all of which play in MediaPlayer without a hitch! > > Awesome! > > > I mainly wanted to do this as a personal exercise, though I'd imagine > this > > is a useful piece of functionality for many others also - so should I > > submit a patch of the changes, or is this unlikely to be accepted? > (Again, > > sorry for the perhaps obvious question, I'm rather new to this.) I've > had a > > look at the code review process and it seems to suggest adding a patch to > > the relevant JIRA issue for those who don't have commit access (in this > > case 18009), but I don't seem to have permission to do that either? > > It sounds like there are perhaps two different ways to move forward here, > the first is to take a submission in the form of WIKI writeup that we can > post so that anybody else who wants to try extending the media files can > follow the path you took. The other is to take a patch for the given JIRA > issue. Sadly, the JIRA server doesn't allow just anybody to supply patches, > so you will have to email to Steve or Kevin and they can attach it to the > issue for you. > > Thanks! > Richard > >
