[gst-devel] avifile and 0.5.1

Thomas Vander Stichele thomas at urgent.rug.ac.be
Fri Jan 10 14:41:02 CET 2003


On 10 Jan 2003, Louis Garcia wrote:

> I would like to play .avi files. Last time I checked gstreamer used
> avifile for the avi plugin. Has this changed?

No, but ffmpeg has been added as well.  It's not very reliable yet though, 
it needs some more love.

Thomas

 I do not see any mention
> of an avi plugin in the REQUIREMENTS file.
> 
> --Lou
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 02:41, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > On 9 Jan 2003, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > 
> > > Is avifile needed for 0.5.1?
> > 
> > It's never been needed but always supported.
> > 
> > > I know it was broke in 0.5.0.
> > 
> > Really ? I didn't :) Which means - to the best of our knowledge, it wasn't 
> > broken.  What's your source ?
> > 
> > > What version
> > > should I use? 
> > 
> > Version of what, to do what ?
> > 
> > > Also, what's the status of openquicktime? I don't think it
> > > has many codecs.
> > 
> > I never use it, don't think it supports much.
> > 
> > Thomas
> 

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