RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 08/20/2015 10:18 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 02:47 PM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
>> Wine packagers and developers, do you have any thoughts or
>> objections to depending on FFmpeg/libav's libavutils and
>> libavcodec for xaudio2 support?
> 
> 
> ffmpeg is not free (re: patents). Could you rework it to use
> gstreamer 1.x instead?
> 
> See also: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31836
gstreamer is unusable for Wine due to it relying on glib and that is
broken since glib-2.32.0:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30557

The way forward is to replace winegstreamer too.

bye
	michael