this message is just to announce an update of the project will be coming in the next weeks. In about 7 days, I will be able to work on Fobs half time for some weeks. I already have important changes, such as support for the latest versions of ffmpeg, as well as fixes for building the project under MinGW. I will also look at the requests that users have been leaving in the forum in chronological order.
Stay connected. There might be a couple of surprises!
Jose San Pedro
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I was looking at rebuilding it myself (under MINGW), but put that on hold when I noticed that the sources out of sync with the current ffmpeg implementation.
Here are a few things I've found missing in the current FOBS that I would like to add:
- Support for AAC audio (libfaad/libfaac). This would enable playback of the latest Quicktime formats which include H264 and AAC.
- Support for AMR audio (libamrnb/libamrwb). I know this is a wierd request, but this format is used by many 3GPP format videos recorded on mobile phones.
I'm also wondering if its possible to package FOBS so that it can be easily deployed via Java's Web Start (JNLP). I don't really know enough about either FOBS or JNLP to know how to approach this. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Stewart
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the current binary version (0.4.1) includes support for aac, both for encoding and decoding. This has mainly to do with the build options used to compile ffmpeg, and not Fobs. About AMR that's exactly the same issue. I didn't include it before because I thought there was no interest in having this built into the Fobs binary package, but I will consider its inclusion for the next release.
Cheers,
Jose
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Dear all,
this message is just to announce an update of the project will be coming in the next weeks. In about 7 days, I will be able to work on Fobs half time for some weeks. I already have important changes, such as support for the latest versions of ffmpeg, as well as fixes for building the project under MinGW. I will also look at the requests that users have been leaving in the forum in chronological order.
Stay connected. There might be a couple of surprises!
Jose San Pedro
That's good news.
I was looking at rebuilding it myself (under MINGW), but put that on hold when I noticed that the sources out of sync with the current ffmpeg implementation.
Here are a few things I've found missing in the current FOBS that I would like to add:
- Support for AAC audio (libfaad/libfaac). This would enable playback of the latest Quicktime formats which include H264 and AAC.
- Support for AMR audio (libamrnb/libamrwb). I know this is a wierd request, but this format is used by many 3GPP format videos recorded on mobile phones.
I'm also wondering if its possible to package FOBS so that it can be easily deployed via Java's Web Start (JNLP). I don't really know enough about either FOBS or JNLP to know how to approach this. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Stewart
Hi,
the current binary version (0.4.1) includes support for aac, both for encoding and decoding. This has mainly to do with the build options used to compile ffmpeg, and not Fobs. About AMR that's exactly the same issue. I didn't include it before because I thought there was no interest in having this built into the Fobs binary package, but I will consider its inclusion for the next release.
Cheers,
Jose
Hi Jose,
OK, my bad. I checked it again and AAC does work for me.
AMR is fairly uninteresting, except if you're creating content on phones. It seems to be used for MMS messages.
BTW, thanks for all your work on FOBS so far - it turns JMF into something pretty powerful.
Cheers,
Stewart