[Buildroot] [PATCH] Add gst-av package

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Felipe" == Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:
>  Felipe> I thought the help text explained that: gst-ffmpeg disables certain
>  Felipe> codecs, like MP3, Vorbis, Theora, etc. IOW. It has political baggage
>  Felipe> from GStreamer developers; they don't want people to use FFmpeg, they
>  Felipe> want people to use native elements: vorbisdec, theoradec, maddec, etc.
>
> But how does (more-or-less) reimplementing gst-ffmpeg change this
> political baggage?

I don't have to convince GStreamer developers--I know many of them,
and I doubt they would allow such a change.

Plus, here's another important part of the description[1]:

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In addition, it is much simpler (2654 vs 16575 LOC), has better
performance, and has a bit of extra features (such as less latency),
and doesn’t use deprecated API’s. In a previous post I measured
exactly how much improvement compared to gst-ffmpeg there is; it’s not
much, but it’s some.
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Yes, I have actually measured the power usage[2].

But the main reason is the complexity of the code. If you quickly skim
through both code-bases, you would see what I mean :)

Cheers.

[1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/gst-av-0-5-released-now-with-video-encoding-and-decoding-support/
[2] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/gst-av-0-3-better-performance-for-vorbis-and-mp3/

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Felipe Contreras