[Swfdec] Re: A little question about swfdec 0.4.3 and ffmpeg's swscaler

[in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de]

Ok, this time without hitting send accidentally...

1) Please write to the proper mailing list. Swfdec is not getting  
enough mail to make splitting the commit mail worth it (yet ;)).
2) I don not really have a clue about ffmpeg, and all its weird  
options and features. I just know enough to make Debian's version work  
in swfdec. And I don't really care until there's something out in the  
wild that's worth supporting.
3) The img_convert stuff is used so I'm sure I get the video in the  
RGBA format used by cairo. At least that was my idea why it's  
necessary. If that's not the case, send me a patch to get rid of it.  
Scaling at least is done in cairo and not in ffmpeg.
4) The video decoding stuff has not changed at all since 0.4.3.  
Actually pretty much nothing froma feature point of view has changed.  
The only changes have been the exported API, some fixes for Pygtk's  
bindings gneerator and me breaking swfdec's scripting engine on a  
branch.


Cheers,
Benjamin


Quoting owczi at owczi.net:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
>   Please excuse me not writing to propper mailing list but I saw mostly
> commit reports there.
>   I was just trying to compile swfdec + swfdec-mozilla 0.4.3 tarballs, but
> finally the compilation died on 'undefined reference to `img_convert''.
> My distro (PLD Linux) has ffmpeg built with swscaler and therefore
> img_*, marked as deprecated, don't work. Now I don't want to build a
> separate ffmpeg library set, cause it's a real pain in the butt since
> ffmpeg and gcc started to bite each other badly on my box (i built
> ffmpeg without swscaler and rebuilt swfdec to use it, but then ffmpeg
> refused to cooperate:
> "Compiler did not align stack variables.").
>    I'm compiling this for ppc arch on my old powerbook (one of those
> archicectures that look at swfdec and gnash as a salvation ;) .
>   I've browsed through swfdec's current Git tree and I see it has changed
> a lot. Will building from current Git tree solve my issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> owczi
>
> --
> Wojciech 'owczi' Owczarek
> mailto: owczi\at/owczi/dot\net
> jid: owczi/at\jabberpl.org
>