RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Andrew Eikum]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:18:46PM -0500, 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
> 
> 

In addition to what Michael Stefaniuc said, I don't think gstreamer
has WMA support?

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html

I wasn't able to find any open source libraries to decode WMA other
than FFmpeg.

Andrew