video in the desktop

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,

> Ok I've been testing the current code. It looks clean, it works on x86-64
> and x86-32. It could do with some optimising and deep wizardly mmx etc
> of the kind that ffmpeg has but thats obviously not their priority and
> it makes sense its not.

Yeah, it needs optimizing, which will happen now that the bitstream is
frozen.

> The big challenge I see would be building a totem that had theora but didn't
> have all the patent and license encumbered non US friendly formats. It
> would require major violence on the innards of xine-lib it appears.

No challenge - Totem works with the GStreamer backend.  Obviously
xine-lib is not distributable, but GStreamer is.

Thomas


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