Re: [Gnash-dev] Saved media not quite right

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, John Gilmore wrote:

> I don't understand why Gnash would be able to play a video by using
> the gstreamer library and the codecs it knows about, but Totem
> wouldn't be able to play the very same thing using the very same
> library on the very same system.

Gstreamer's FLV parser may not yet support the new codec types. The same
can be said for ffmpeg based players.

> Are you really sure there's no gnash
> bug here?

Yes. Both videos play fine in Gnash. The first video plays in mplayer,
but the second video doesn't.

> A "Save Media" feature that half the time saves media that
> won't play isn't very useful.

I'm afraid we can't do anything about the playback of other players, but
our save feature works just fine.

> [Aside: This seems pretty excessive to me; perhaps someone who knows
> the code can figure out why we're pulling in GPG, libkrb5, and every
> codec known to man.  Just linking all these must take more than
> a second on the OLPC.]

I suspect most of those are pulled in by Gstreamer. I don't know if
there's anything we can do about that.

Bastiaan