Re: [Gnash-dev] Another go at configuring the mediahandlers/decoders

[Sergio Garcia]

Hi Tomas,

I've just started to take a look at the gnash code, so be kind to me.. :)

I plan to use the gnash server to be able to play a swf and streaming it to a 
videophone
using asterisk. This would be great for VideoIVR systems and things like that.

As my approeach is different as if i were planing to use it as a player I think 
I could
give a differente view about it.

I thinkit would be a good idea to handle the gui, the audio and video 
independently
in different objecfs. Also perhaps it would be a good idea to implement the 
backends
as some kind of loadable plugins, so you could enable or disable them from the 
config
file without recompiling the rest.

Just my 2 cents.. 

Best regards
Sergio


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Tomas Groth <address@hidden>
Date:  Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:52:23 +0200 (CEST)

>Hi all,
>
>It's once again time to reconsider the way the media handlers are chosen...
>At the moment I'm doing some work on the NetStream and Sound classes, and the
>soundhandlers, and while I'm at it, why not change the configuring as well?
>The goals are:
> * Make it possible to have 2 soundbackends in 1 gnash-setup.
> * Minimize the use of the ffmpeg mp3-decoder, since it is known not to be the
>best around, so we want to use madlib whenever possible.
>
>How to do it:
>Get rid of the --enable-media=x, and instead use --enable-gst, --enable-ffmpeg
>and --enable-mad. To disable a backend just use the corresponding --disable-x.
>
>When gst is enabled, the backend for it will be compiled, and if chosen at
>runtime it will be used to decode and play all media.
>
>When ffmpeg is enabled, the backend for it will be compiled, and if chosen at
>runtime it will be used to decode and play all media, except if mad is enabled,
>in which case mad will do the mp3-decoding.
>
>When mad is enabled, the backend for it will be compiled, and if chosen at
>runtime it will be used to decode and play all mp3-audio. If mad is enabled and
>ffmpeg is not, only audio will be available when playing video from sites like
>youtube.
>
>ffmpeg and mad uses the same SDL backend for audio output, and are therefore
>tightly connected. 
>
>At runtime or in .gnashrc a default soundhandler should be selected, perhaps
>using "set soundhandler sdl" and "set soundhandler gst" in .gnashrc, and -snd
><sdl|gst> on the commandline.
>
>
>Feel free to comment, and make suggestions on how this should be done!
>
>cheers,
>
>Tomas
>
>
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