Attila Kinali pisze: >>>> But that it seems to user. At Ubuntu from 04.2008 it's ffmpeg CVS from >>>> 03.2007 so... almost as dead. >>>> In fact, developers of Ubuntu force Gstreamer as a main decoder. >>> And Gstreamer uses ffmpeg in the back, without telling you >>> (they link staticaly against ffmpeg like MPlayer does) >> No. It's special "gstreamer-ffmpeg" package from "unsupported" repo that >> user must install on it's own. > So, you are telling us that gstreamer has written a new codec > library for every codec out there in just a few years, while > developing a DShow drop in replacement? I highly doubt that. > ffmpeg is _the_codec_library_ every OSS player project uses it. > There is no way around it, unless you stick to MPEG1/2 only. ditto - did you forgot XINE? But in Ubuntu "gstreamer-ffmpeg" is additional package unsupported by Canonical. And it's not installed by default. That's a fact. Whatever gstreamer uses another set of codecs and it's internal or external is not the point. -- Krzysztof 'DK75' Duchnowski GetFirefox - http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Konfiguracja UTF-8 dla czytnik?w - http://evil.pl/pip/utf/
