Re: [Gnash] MP3 support

[Daniel James]

Hi Tomas,

> Personnally i'd prefer to
> use ffmpeg directly for both video (videoframes and flv) and audio instead of
> piping it through gstreamer

Technically that may well be the better solution, but software patents 
also make ffmpeg hard to distribute in complete 'free as in beer' 
packages.

> > I see the long term solution as adding Ogg Vorbis support to the Flash
> > specification.

> I agree that that would be great, but since the flash8 introduces another
> proprietary video codec (vp6), i doubt that flash will be hit by the "open
> standard wawe" anytime soon.

Adobe may have a slightly different take on this subject than Macromedia 
had. I don't doubt that they will continue to make use of proprietary 
codecs, but since a royalty free and technically superior alternative to 
MP3 already exists, they have a clear interest in considering it.

The other potential scenario is that the free software community 
standardises on Vorbis as an animation soundtrack format, and then 
distributes its own animation players/plugins which are broadly Flash 
compatible, but also have 100% support for a truly open, published 
(vector art + sound) standard.

Cheers!

Daniel