<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ok, it's fairly impossible to rely on GStreamer on os-x. The problem is that you need to use MacPorts or something as root to <div>install giga-bytes of software related to GStreamer. That's just not likely, too much magic for MacIntosh users. </div><div><br></div><div>Sophie btw did deal with multiple layers of codec support and would ask the plugins if they supported OGG or MPEG and work </div><div>their way down to a solution. It used a weighted decision tree for that, so for example if the Ogg audio was supported by </div><div>a codec in Quicktime that the user had installed it would take the quicktime logic path, versus the Ogg plugin path.. </div><div><br><div>So if you had an mpeg video it would play nicely on your mac with quicktime, or on windows if quicktime was installed, or fall back to </div><div>the mpeg player code if supported on linux. </div><div><br><div><div>On 2010-08-28, at 3:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 28.08.2010, at 02:21, Chris Cunnington wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">OK, I've pulled the MPEG player from Sophie. It looks worlds better. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://smalltalktelevision.com/player2.jpg">http://smalltalktelevision.com/player2.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's also at <a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/MultiMedia.html">http://www.squeaksource.com/MultiMedia.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It opens with: </div><div><br></div><div>MPEGMoviePlayerMorph new openInWorld </div><div><br></div><div>Chris </div></blockquote><br></div><div>Awesome! :)</div><div><br></div><div>IIRC it was rather hard to recode video to an mpeg format this would accept.</div><div><br></div><div>And a solution that would not require recoding would be preferable.</div><div><br></div><div>On Linux we have John's GStreamer plugin, and he once compiled it on OS X too. Not sure how hard it would be to port to Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>The Best Way would be a generic VideoPlugin that would have different implementations for each platform (e.g. QuickTime on Mac, GStreamer on Linux, DirectShow on Windows). That would be quite some development effort, however. </div><div><br></div><div>
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