Re: [Audacity-devel] [Libav-user] Requesting help to port Audacity to recent FFmpeg

[Gale (A. Team) <ga...@au...>]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> One question here would be if there would be interrest if FFmpeg would
> provide a seperate simple API which isnt designed to be as efficient
> as possible and which makes no attempt to be compatible with libav.
> such API could then be long term stable?
>
> This idea did come up already a few times IIRC. Just noone imlpemented
> it yet, but the more people support the idea the more likely someone
> will sit down and write it ...

How popular would that be with users, or with Linux distributions (it would
be a third alternative to standard FFmpeg and standard libav)? 

Because FFmpeg/libav is so "bleeding edge" it seems that users often want
to use the latest possible version of it (even on Windows). While you can 
use the latest FFmpeg binary for export from Audacity using "(external
program)" it seems this won't work consistently for importing unless the 
same FFmpeg version is used, hence another reason to try GStreamer.

Incidentally GStreamer support in Audacity doesn't work yet on Windows
for me, but I know Leland is on to it.  



Gale






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