[opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

Callum Prentice (Callum) callum at lindenlab.com
Mon May 16 14:41:46 PDT 2016


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> Gstreamer is probably your best bet just based on the friendliness of the
> developer community when asking questions and gstreamer being somewhat more
> focused on being an intuitive framework to integrate into an application.
> However, libvlc has a much simpler api which makes it faster to integrate,
> and you don’t need to worry about plugins as much, as only the codecs are
> modular (which has benefits and drawbacks, of course.) As Henri pointed out
> though, getting a functional framework to link against is a job that only
> happens once (or once every library update anyway.)
>

​Understood and thanks for the insight.  Does the GStreamer plugin in the
LL viewer-release branch still build?  Do you know if anyone has made a
Windows or OS X version of it ?
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