For your information, libav doesn't supports all features of ffmpeg. And Fedora uses Ffmpeg, not libav fork. ^__^ In any case, I don't feel any problems with ffmpeg since the latest 0.64.1. K.
2013/12/12 Carlos López González <genet...@gmail.com>: > 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 <rylle...@gmail.com> >> >> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics >> Pro! >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Synfig-devl mailing list >> Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl > > > > > -- > Carlos > http://synfig.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics > Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Synfig-devl mailing list > Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl > -- http://morevnaproject.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
