SWFdec vs Gnash (also gcjwebplugin)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 15 15:58:51 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas (pertusus at free.fr) said: 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:33:46AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > It's not proprietary, it's any codecs that aren't installed. The
> > gstreamer side has zero implementation details as to where codecs
> > are installed from.
> 
> Sure, but since there are real issues mainly for proprietary codecs, 
> having such feature is likely to lead to helping install proprietary
> codecs. This is not necessarily the case, I understand it well, but
> (and without having looked at this issue), I would assume that it may
> lead to proprietary codecs being installed. This may well be a false
> assumption, but a quite logical one. And if there are no implementation
> details, it is even more probable. In any case my assumptions are
> irrelevant since I wasn't part of that discussion in gnash, and I don't 
> care that much (I always have all the codecs installed).
> 
> Anyway I could still have a look at it for fedora sake, but where is 
> the documentation?

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~bilboed/gstreamer/tree/docs/design/draft-missing-plugins.txt

and:

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gstreamer-base-utils.html

would probably make a good start.

Bill




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