Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog configure.ac doc/C/usermanual/g... [release_0_8_2_rc1]

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Sandro Santilli wrote:

>                 * configure.ac: never attempt to use libmad, fallback to ffmpeg 
> if
>                   gstreamer is not supported and not explicitly requested.

I don't agree with this change. I don't think we want users to fall back
on ffmpeg when they don't have gstreamer, only to discover various
instabilities when they play various media containing movies. Users
won't see the warning "trying ffmpeg now" and will blindly assume that
they have the right dependencies.

In my opinion, we should make configure abort if gstreamer isn't found,
and tell the user that "it's not well supported currently, but if you
want to you can try --enable-media=ffmpeg".

Bastiaan