On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 09:09:31AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 08/21/2015 08:59 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
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
WMA support is provided by the libav plugin.
$ gst-inspect-1.0 | grep -i wma typefindfunctions: video/x-ms-asf: asf, wm, wma, wmv libav: avenc_wmav1: libav Windows Media Audio 1 encoder libav: avenc_wmav2: libav Windows Media Audio 2 encoder libav: avdec_wmalossless: libav Windows Media Audio Lossless decoder libav: avdec_wmapro: libav Windows Media Audio 9 Professional decoder libav: avdec_wmav1: libav Windows Media Audio 1 decoder libav: avdec_wmav2: libav Windows Media Audio 2 decoder libav: avdec_wmavoice: libav Windows Media Audio Voice decoder
If you go down the route of linking against ffmpeg or including a WMA decoder those of us that package wine in distributions released in patent-friendly countries will have to spend time striping out that support (if it is not a configure time option).
Did libav drop whatever patent-encumbered code from ffmpeg? If not, I don't see how this solves any patent issues for distros that care about it.
Andrew