[webkit-dev] WinCairo video

[Philippe Normand]

On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 11:21 -0600, Alex Christensen wrote:
> I know there are several companies who don't even want to mess with
> the licenses of GStreamer or FFmpeg.  GStreamer's license isn't a
> problem, but I'm not sure how legally safe the plugins are. 

That's right. If you need support for those problematic codecs there are
some companies that can provide them.
 
>  They certainly don't have an indemnification clause in their
> licenses.  The dlls are still large compared to WebKit, and I've had
> trouble compiling them from source and debugging them on Windows.  The
> distributed versions from freedesktop.org also use a version of
> libsoup that is too old to use as the network backend for WebKit.  I'd
> also like to remove the requirement of installing GStreamer to build
> and run the unmodified WinCairo port to make it easier for people who
> don't know much about WebKit to build and run it.
> 

Those issues can likely be fixed. A lot of effort was invested in easing
the build of GStreamer for windows and Mac OSX. There are still some
bugs to iron out though.

> I'm not saying that GStreamer is out of the question in the future,
> but I think there are more reasons to switch than to stay right now.
> 

That's alright I understand your concerns.

Philippe

> 
> Alex Christensen
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Philippe Normand <philn at igalia.com>
> wrote:
>         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
>         
>         
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