[Gnash-dev] from Hong Yu: partial progress of debugging Gnash-cvs with new FFmpeg

[Hong Yu]

So far we have had progress debugging Gnash-cvs with direct linking to 
FFmpeg built from newest source (with which the VP6 support, etc.). 
After certain modifications to the configuration and the source (see 
where '// Hong Yu' in the files attached), we are able to configure 
Gnash-cvs with '--enable-media=ffmpeg', build, install, and run YouTube 
video at least once successfully, and firefox browser won't get crashed.

Of course, the modifications with the partial progress are rather 
incomplete, for what we did was mainly to recover the FFmpeg processing 
code in media handling component. We are certainly interested in 
implementing the FFmpeg streaming part more consistent with the new 
media framework.

Currently we are debugging Gnash-cvs+newFFmpeg with Twango.

Best regards,

Hong Yu



Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Hong Yu wrote:
>
> > Therefore, if you would still consider the ffmpeg option, could we 
> > help with, for example, coding the ffmpeg related media-handling 
> > components? We are working for embedded platform, so we would 
> > appreciate it if the GStreamer's 7MB size libraries could be removed. 
> > Thank you!
>
> On a sidenote: if your size indication of 7MB is for gstreamer itself,
> then you also might consider stripping down gstreamer. Gstreamer uses a
> plugin-based system, so you can simply remove the plugins that aren't
> required for Gnash in your embedded setup. Given that, you should be
> able to strip it down to less than 1MB. That's not taking into account
> any of Gstreamer's dependencies, and you'll still need ffmpeg (in the
> form of gstreamer-ffmpeg).
>
> Bastiaan

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