[gst-devel] avifile and 0.5.1

[Louis Garcia]

ffmpeg is going to replace avifile soon. How about mpeg2dec? Am I to
understand the gstreamer is going to abandon the helper files and
develop plugins in-house? Or is this just for avifile? The output of
gst-inspect ffmpeg shows many formats supported.

--Lou


On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:38, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> 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
> >