[aur-general] gnash removed from aur

[Andrei Thorp]

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 at 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.
>
>