Use the capabilities of the native operating systems.
There is no reason at all why for OS X you should not use the system frameworks
for media and audio. They are battle tested on virtually over a billion devices
daily. They are also licensed to use for anyone with an Apple Developer ID.
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> The two technologies that seemed like they might work were identified as
> GStreamer and LibVLC. The former was an attractive option since that was
> already used in the Linux viewer. The existing GStreamer media plugin code
> was somewhat complex and unknown to me whereas playback of a stream
It would be a lot of work to come up with a per-platform decoder for say,
MPEG4 files. I'm not aware of a way to decode media into a buffer on
Windows for example that works across all versions - as far as I remember,
you have to set up Windows Media player before it'll do anything.
On Tue, May 17
Understood Nicky - thanks for the insight.
Messages here as well as some digging I've done today suggest that trying
to make GStreamer work on Windows is going to be fraught with technical and
legal issues.
I'll double check with the legal team but it seems like VLC might be a more
viable option
