[Gnash-dev] Re: from Hong Yu: partial progress of debugging Gnash-cvs with new FFmpeg

[Hong Yu]

So would you consider the option '--enable-media=ffmpeg' for the new or 
future release(s)? Also, I see lot media handling work done by NetStream 
during runtime, so I don't quite understand the role of libmedia/ code.

Best regards,

Hong Yu



Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Hong Yu wrote:
>
> > So far we have had progress debugging Gnash-cvs with direct linking 
> > to FFmpeg built from newest source (with which the VP6 support, 
> > etc.). After certain modifications to the configuration and the 
> > source (see where '// Hong Yu' in the files attached), we are able to 
> > configure Gnash-cvs with '--enable-media=ffmpeg', build, install, and 
> > run YouTube video at least once successfully, and firefox browser 
> > won't get crashed.
> >
> > Of course, the modifications with the partial progress are rather 
> > incomplete, for what we did was mainly to recover the FFmpeg 
> > processing code in media handling component. We are certainly 
> > interested in implementing the FFmpeg streaming part more consistent 
> > with the new media framework.
>
> Great! The new Gnash release is probably only days away, after which I
> will have some time to clean things up a bit (documentation, removal of
> unused files, etc).
>
> Bastiaan