On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:23:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 15:36 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit : > > 2. If the GNOME maintainers come to an agreement that linking dynamically > > is possible it would be _much_ appreciated, if not we need to bite the > > bullet. > > I have made a new patch which is much cleaner and opened a bug about it. > So far Loïc hasn't commented on it, but AIUI he's still hostile to such > a change until it is accepted upstream. > > I don't claim to have extensively tested the patch, especially with > exotic codecs, but it shows that dynamic linking is possible, and it > makes a better package at first sight - but version 0.10.2 should > improve codec support as well. > > > And for mplayer; it provides dynamic linking out of the box and it's not > > an important infrastructure package like gstreamer, so the above does not > > apply. > > Well, totem-xine is still the default in etch, which means > gstreamer-ffmpeg is only important for people explicitly installing > totem-gstreamer. However the reason until now for xine to be the default > was its superior codec support. If both packages can link to the same > libavcodec, I think totem-gstreamer is superior, as being lighter, not > having the infamous bug #400525 and with better support for other > (non-ffmpeg) codecs.
Except that gstreamer 0.10 still doesn't support DVD playback (which is a regression over gstreamer 0.8). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
