[Swfdec] flv support?

[Ravi Karmarkar]

Ref:   Re: Porting SWFDec to Android (Benjamin Otte)

*0.4.2 playing back FLV files was a hack that didn't work very well.
After I changed various internals, it was no longer possible to keep
that hack working. So no, Swfdec itself cannot load FLV files. Swfdec
can however load SWF file and those SWF files can load FLV files fine.

If you want to play back FLV files directly, please use GStreamer.*


I'm a little confused here...

My requirement is to be able to play downloaded YouTube videos(in flv
format) in the GTK based swfdec player.

How does 0.8.4 version achieve youtube playback when it can't load FLV files
directly?

My understanding is that swfdec parses the flv file and uses GStreamer to
decode the audio/video but how to make the standalone swfdec player decode
the flv file in the first place?

I'm sorry if I'm missing the obvious. Please tell me how can I fulfill my
requirement mentioned above.

Thanks and regards,
Ravi Karmarkar





On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Riccardo Magliocchetti <
riccardo.magliocchetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ravi Karmarkar ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Riccardo,
>>
>> Thanks for your answer. It seems that the gstreamer-bad plugin has the
>> necessary decoder for flv.
>>
>> The gstreamer-bad is a large collection of plugins and I would like to
>> have flv support only. Could you give me some hint on what should be the
>> configure options?
>>
>
> swfdec has built in a flv decoder, you are only missing the decoders for
> the a/v contained inside them so what you may want to do is to recompile
> only the needed subset of gstreamer plugins, which one depends on what you
> need to be played. grep the source code for SWFDEC_AUDIO_CODEC and
> SWFDEC_VIDEO_CODEC.
>
>  Also, just installing the codec probably won't be enough and I need to
>> hack into swfdec code so that the flv related functions are used. Can you
>> tell me where do I need to make these changes?
>>
>
> try grepping flv inside swfdec/ :)
>
> riccardo
>
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