On 07/31/2010 05:09 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 7/31/10 4:37 AM, Hanno Böck wrote: >> vpx for supporting googles vp8 codec used in webm.
No, vpx is for using libvpx. >> At the moment this is only mplayer and ffmpeg, but it's pretty obvious that >> apps supporting vp8 will start popping up everywhere (currently working on >> arista ebuild which will support it). > Just verifying: does the vpx USE flag in ffmpeg control the support for > encoding vp8, decoding it, or both? How should www-client/chromium > depend on ffmpeg to make sure it will support vp8? it does trigger the use of libvpx, curreng ffvp8 (decoder) is faster than libvpx, libvpx is used for the encoding side for now. >> Though we might discuss if vpx is really a good name or it shouldn't be vp8. > > It might also be webm. Not sure what's more intuitive for people. Also, > nteresting question would be whether to enable the flag by default an in > which profiles (desktop?). vpx -> you use libvpx vp8 -> you want vp8 as for decoding ffmpeg is already a provider so application using it won't need additional useflag IMHO lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
