[gst-devel] What projects are underway?

[Dan Dennedy]

Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On 18 Apr 2001 22:44:03 -0500, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> 
>> I just subscribed to this list, so this reply is not properly threaded....
>> 
>> First of all, I want to comment on the post from 3ivx.com. Please consider
>> using the Quicktime 4 Linux implementation from
>> http://www.heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3 for your quicktime parsers.
>> The reason is because this is already a fairly mature implementation. More
>> specific reasons will become clear below.
> 
> 
> This library might have a nice API, but the code that's inside is far
> from being 'mature'. It's x86 ASM and C spaghetti, highly unportable,

Ok, so its not elegant, but it is more mature than writing something 
from scratch. The assembler is there for obvious performance reasons; 
even gstreamer includes some x86/MMX assembler. But I agree that there 
should pure C equivalents for any assembler routines. The question is 
whether a cleanup or a complete rewrite is in order. In the case of a 
rewrite, surely some implementation details of the spec can be be more 
quickly understood from its source. Also, for the purposes I outlined, 
compatibility with the Heroine Warrior implementation is desirable.

> and 100% broken on anything but x86. Some of the optimized functions
> don't even have a C equivalent, IIRC.
> 
> For two years, I try every now and then to make the code from
> heroinewarrior work on PPC. Either it doesn't compile, or it is broken.
> 
> You know what to expect now.
> 
> Cheers
>