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

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Hong Yu wrote:

> 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.

Great! The new Gnash release is probably only days away, after which I
will have some time to clean things up a bit (documentation, removal of
unused files, etc).

Bastiaan