[gst-devel] RealAudio & RealVideo

[Erik Walthinsen]

On 5 Dec 2002, Louis Garcia wrote:

> Has anyone thought about plugins for real now that they open-sourced
> their codecs?

Only the infrastructure is "open-sourced", not the codecs.  In order to
use them we will still have to write a shim layer to hook into their
binary codecs.  It's possible, but not fun.  It would probably have to be
done with two people in order to blackbox it, for safety.

      Erik Walthinsen <omega at temple-baptist.com> - System Administrator
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