On Monday 08 March 2004 17:56, Dan Dennedy wrote: > Yes, but the world is full of opinions, no? I voiced my opinion for > LGPL.
;-) Sure. I wasn't critizising you, especially not since you are just an employee. Just the strange fears of GPL which are generally found among employers. > We do heavily use ffmpeg and plan to use it more while also > supporting the proprietary MainConcept codecs. Frankly, I think > gstreamer is way too brittle. After what we accomplished in 3 months, it > amazes me how long gstreamer has been in development with such poor > results. IMHO, they suffer from a tremendous overdesign and lack of apreciation of simplicity. Also they suffer from doing OOP in C, that's what C++ was invented for. > Of course, that is easy for me to say without helping. However, > I strongly believe using gstreamer would have resulted in a failure to > deliver a solution and not being paid in order to feed my children. We > probably could have accomplished what we need using xine--I did write > Xine output plugins for my BlueFish SDI card :-). Another big factor is > the decision of the development lead, and in this project it was not me. In your situation I would have done probably the same thing. I live in academic heaven. People pay me money to crash electrons into each other. I jst say 'unfortunate' because I concider all your efforts as lost as far as OSS is concerned. But I guess you kids don't care much about OSS ;-) Cheers, Rolf -- contacts: www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~dubitzky
