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 <legovini@spiro.fisica.unipd.it> 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.