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

[Callum Prentice (Callum)]

Thanks Nicky - lots of info there for me to look at.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Nicky Perian <nickyperian at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/OPEN-151
> Dated from when fmod went to fmodex
> Kokua used gstreamer for streaming for windows, but went to fmodex because
> of code being out of date with plugins.
> Specfic to this was not playing some stream rates.
>
> I could set Kokua back to gstreamer but would need to autobuild1.0 the
> archives.
>
> There is an overhead of the gstreamer plugins dll's. iirc it was about 25
> MB.
>
> Kokua still uses gstreamer for linux as a lot of the linux users want as
> much opensource as possible.
>
> Linux version relies on distro packages for the plugins.
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Cinder Roxley <cinder at alchemyviewer.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On May 16, 2016 at 4:03:29 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) (
>> callum at lindenlab.com) wrote:
>>
>>   Do you know if anyone has made a Windows or OS X version of it ?
>>> ​
>>>
>>>
>>> I made an attempt three years ago, got it working on OS X. Got
>>> frustrated with mingw and moved on to something else. I know the Imprudence
>>> team had some success with replacing both FMOD and Quicktime with gstreamer
>>> earlier than that, but this issue from their tracker shows that they then
>>> debated moving to FFMpeg or libvlc instead:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/team-purple/imprudence/tickets/340/
>>> ​
>>>
>>
>> Good info - I'll go take a look - thanks Cinder.​
>>  ​
>>
>> Looks like this is the last efforts on gstreamer for the viewer from
>> Inworldz. Autobuild 3p for building gstreamer 1.0 win32:
>> https://bitbucket.org/mccabe/3p-gstreamer-sdk-x86-iw
>> --
>> Cinder Roxley
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