[gst-devel] Re: DirectShow conversion to Gstreamer

[Christophe Fergeau]

Le lundi 01 novembre 2004 à 08:45 +0100, ChristianHJW a écrit :
> Larry Berlinski wrote:
> > Anyone know if Gstreamer has been attempted on Windoze?
> 
> I was browsing gstreamer.net again to try to find any information about 
> the Windows port. Nada, Zero. Neither in the news, nor in the FAQ or 
> even in the downloads.
> 
> It appears to me like you are trying hard to not the world know there is 
> one. Maybe because you are afraid of bad reactions from the Linux side ? 
> Am i getting paranoid ?

I guess the main reason why there isn't anything about the windows port
on gstreamer website is that none of the main developers know much about
the windows port (what is working/not working, where it is available
from, how to use it in a windows project, ...). If you work with Uraeus
or thomasvs to write news, doc, ... about the windows port, I'm sure
they'll gladly put whatever you provide them online.

> 
> If you dont communicate that there actually IS a Windows port existing, 
> how could people know about it then, and start contributing to it ? We 
> wanted to contribute to gstreamer with the port, hoping it would take 
> off so that gstreamer could become a viable alternative to what we are 
> trying to achieve. 

Once again, most gstreamer developers don't use windows, so don't be
surprised if they don't talk much about it. Developers not using windows
will have a hard time helping out windows developers who want to use
gstreamer for windows for one... It would probably be more productive to
look for someone wanting to hack on windows gstreamer apps (ie someone
who gets a video and audio sink to work and who ports a simple gtk
player to windows) than to complain that the gstreamer developers
(mainly linux guys) don't care about windows ;)

Cheers,

Christophe

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