Re: AW: [Gnash-dev] from Hong Yu: Gnash/server/asobj/LoadVars.* need fix for running www.twango.com videos

[Hong Yu]

Thanks for your encouraging suggestions! To contribute to Gnash project 
is exciting and benefits our team as well.

On the other hand, we have found that flash videos from YouTube are of 
H.263 format, and flash videos from Twango (www.twango.com) are of VP6 
format. Therefore yesterday we upgraded our FFmpeg from the newest 
source. However, running Gnash-cvs version with Twango still saw error 
about 'internal data flow error' in the log during video stream 
downloading. It is unclear whether this be related to the GStream layer. 
We decide to first look into the issue, which is our top priority at 
present.

Best regards,

Hong Yu



Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Hong Yu wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion! We have modified 'configure.ac' (see 
> > attached) a little bit (with reference to gnash-0.8.1/configure.ac) 
> > to enable ffmpeg as media-handler in the configuration. However, we 
> > find that you have hard-coded GST in your source code as the 
> > media-handler (server/parser/video_stream_def.h); so that we have to 
> > use '--enable-media=gst' in order to proceed to build and install.
> >
> > 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!
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Because we're no longer maintaining the ffmpeg backend we have not
> attempted to preserve the abstraction layer we previously had. However,
> reintroducing it is fairly straight forward. This would produce the
> problem that the ffmpeg video handler will be incompatible with our
> abstraction layer, unless you pick it up to bring it up to speed
> with the rest of our new code.
>
> Bastiaan