Re: [Gnash] MP3 support

[Tomas Groth]

Hi Daniel,

> 
> > Personnally i'd prefer to
> > use ffmpeg directly for both video (videoframes and flv) and audio instead
> of
> > piping it through gstreamer
> 
> Technically that may well be the better solution, but software patents 
> also make ffmpeg hard to distribute in complete 'free as in beer' 
> packages.
> 

It will probably be relativly easy to support both ffmpeg and gstreamer, and
make gnash decide what to use when compiling or even at runtime, so we all can
be happy :)

> >>I see the long term solution as adding Ogg Vorbis support to the Flash
> >>specification.
> 
> > I agree that that would be great, but since the flash8 introduces another
> > proprietary video codec (vp6), i doubt that flash will be hit by the "open
> > standard wawe" anytime soon.
> 
> Adobe may have a slightly different take on this subject than Macromedia 
> had. I don't doubt that they will continue to make use of proprietary 
> codecs, but since a royalty free and technically superior alternative to 
> MP3 already exists, they have a clear interest in considering it.
> 

I hope you're right.


> The other potential scenario is that the free software community 
> standardises on Vorbis as an animation soundtrack format, and then 
> distributes its own animation players/plugins which are broadly Flash 
> compatible, but also have 100% support for a truly open, published 
> (vector art + sound) standard.
> 

When gnash becomes mature enough it could be used for such a purpose, but if it
lies within the project goals it yet to decided/clearified. Otherwise promoting
SVG might be an option.

cheers,

Tomas