On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Andrei Thorp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, that's a decent point also -- if gstreamer can use ffmpeg as a > backend, does it not superscede ffmpeg? It's reasonable to assume that > this means that gstreamer "supports all of ffmpeg plus a little bit of > extra". Regardless, I think in the spirit of letting users do whatever > they want, multiple packages is the way to go. > > -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Paride Legovini > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Andrei Thorp wrote: > >> Simpler sounds nice, but I'm not so sure about the "uses ffmpeg > >> instead" bit -- perhaps there should be two packages if such a choice > >> has to be made? > > > > Well, the choice has to be made, and making two packages is a solution. > > Personally I prefer ffmpeg, and as far as I read it has a broader > > support for codecs used in FLV videos. Even when compiled against > > gstreamer, decoding of such videos (e.g. youtube ones) require > > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, so it seems to me that using ffmpeg directly is a > > more linear approach. > > > > p. > > > > > That just screams gentoo use flags system, that was slowly driving me nuts before my switch to Arch
