[gst-devel] ffmpeg stuff

[Benjamin Otte]

I think it'd be nice if there was a way to get that stuff applied
upstream and have them do releases more frequently. Has anybody tried
this?
(I know they are not known to be very receptive, but trying doesn't
hurt?!)

Benjamin


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm again looking at fixing the ffmpeg stuff. I've had various reports
> from various people, including myself, of various things not working as
> it should.
>
> I would like to work on it a little and fix it decently so that
> a) it still starts from a cvs checkout of ffmpeg
> b) we maintain patchsets when necessary that are applied during the
> build
> c) it passes make distcheck
> d) it stops doing weird stuff with half checkouts/broken
> checkouts/broken tags/...
>
> Since a lot of broken build reports I get from people come from ffmpeg,
> I think it's worth putting some time in this.  Also, I think this would
> be a lot easier for me to work on, and for us to release, if it came as
> a separate module.  That way, we update the release of the gst-ffmpeg
> module independantly of the plugins tarball.  Which means we can put it
> out whenever we managed to sync to ffmpeg CVS, adding support for new
> stuff, or whenever we broke API in core and need to change the plug-in.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program.
> Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive?  Does it
> help you create better code?  SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help
> YOU!  Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
> _______________________________________________
> gstreamer-devel mailing list
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel
>