Re: Proposal: swfdec-gnome

[Benjamin Otte <otte gnome org>]

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