[haiku-commits] Re: Aw: Re: haiku: hrev47086 - in src: kits/media servers/media
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:04:41 +0000
> Personally I find it a bit sad too that we only ship the ffmpeg plugin
> and the other "native" plugins we had before are not on the image
> anymore. In a way, I sense a controversy coming up once I propose to
> add new plugins for things which are already supported by ffmpeg...
Adding plugins for formats that ffmpeg already supports doesn't make a new
feature. But it does make the Haiku install bigger,using more memory, and makes
media apps slower since they have to load the plugin and scan it. There would
be no reason to do that if the ffmpeg addon worked properly, but the fact is
it's currently broken for the encoding side. This may or may not be solved by
the use of "native" plugins, and those tend to get out of date and need more
maintenance.
The plugin system must stay, however. Just like we allow installing extra
fonts, people could come with their own plugins for more exotic (or new)
formats, but ffmpeg can do the job fine as the "default" plugin, and the one we
ship with Haiku.
--
Adrien.
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