[opensource-dev] Quicktime

[Cinder Roxley]

On April 21, 2016 at 7:02:37 AM, Henri Beauchamp (sldev at free.fr <mailto:sldev at free.fr> ) wrote:
Plus, frankly, is it reasonnable to launch a new instance of CEF (i.e. 
a *full* embedded web browser instance, using over 80Mb of memory while 
the QuickTime plugin uses 100 times less) for *each* playing media on 
surrounding prims ? That's a bit like using a hammer and an anvil to 
squash a bug, don't you think so ?... Quite inelegant ! YUCK !!! 

Agreed.

Like I already wrote earlier, the way to go is to use the gstreamer SDK 
for Windows and get a gstreamer plugin compiled for the latter. 
With all due respect, gstreamer is a major pain to build on Windows and runs afoul of dozens of patents and licenses. It’s fine if you’re building from source for linux, but it’s a lawsuit waiting to happen for commercial software if you want to play any “standard” media format like h264 or mp3. Something like libvlc might work if you want a cross platform library (but again, there are per-install royalties to use h264 so you’d still be screwed on mp4.)

Platform-specific plugins could take advantage of the OS’s media playback capabilities, without license and patent headaches.

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Cinder Roxley

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