[gst-devel] New gst-ffmpeg

[Jens Persson]

Hello folks!

Well, tha last gst-ffmpeg is a tad dated now (released 6 dec 06) and 
there has been a ton of improvements in ffmpeg since then so I'm 
wondering if (or when) a new release is planned? I talked with David 
Schleef on IRC and he told me (which I already found out some time ago 
too :D) that you have to grab a new ffmpeg snapshot from svn and make it 
play nice with gstreamer. He thought it was a matter of "a few days 
work" so it doesn't sound that bloody hard to do. The main problem with 
the current one is with x264 encoded files which works terribly 
(unplayable) with gstreamer but works beutifully with latest mplayer rc. 
Most other older formats seems to work just fine though but even they 
will probably work even better with an uptodate ffmpeg snapshot. If I 
had the knowledge I would be happy to donate some time and help out with 
it but I suck terribly in C so I better stay out of the action, at least 
for now. :D

Greets Jens