Re: [Bino-list] GUI

[Martin Lambers]

Hi!

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:51:26 -0500, David Henderson wrote:
> Hey Martin, thanks for the reply!  I was actually looking for
> something like how mplayer can be compiled without a GUI.  Is this
> something that can be implemented at some point?

It can be, if you implement it :)

> I also had another question.  I see that bino currently uses ffmpeg,
> does that mean that it will be able to play the same wide variety of
> formats that mplayer can use?

In theory, yes. In practice, there may be problems with some types of
video. Since FFmpeg documentation is largely nonexistent and the APIs
keep changing, it is very hard to make full use of FFmpeg. For example,
Bino still does not use GPU-accelerated video decoding. That said, with
most common file formats there should not be any problems. And you can
use ffmpeg input tricks like using series of images etc also with Bino.

Martin