[webkit-dev] WinCairo video

[Philippe Normand]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 18:29 -0600, Alex Christensen wrote:
> I'm working on a Media Foundation implementation of MediaPlayerPrivate
> to replace the GStreamer-based one we're currently using.  Media
> Foundation avoids the licensing issues of GStreamer

Which licensing issues? You'd be surprised to know the actual number and
variety of products that use GStreamer nowadays.

>  and the ~100MB of GStreamer dlls which need to be installed in a
> certain directory.  MediaFoundation is included since Windows Vista.
> 

Those dlls can certainly be reduced. I'm no Windows expert but there are
ways to reduce the size of the gst shared libs in Linux (disabling debug
is one).

> 
> I'm pretty sure I'm the only one working on or using WinCairo video,
> but I hope to make the switch later this week unless someone wants to
> maintain GStreamer on Windows.
> 

Philippe