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[rtcweb] Warning gstreamer commercial (was Re: The MTI Codec Questions (what to ask and how to ask them))

Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> Fri, 07 November 2014 09:56 UTC

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From: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
To: cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>, "rtcweb@ietf.org" <rtcweb@ietf.org>
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On 06/11/14 21:08, cowwoc wrote:
> First a question and then a rant :)
>
> Question: What are you proposing to replace with a GStreamer plugin?
> Rant: 2 years ago I tried to get Gstreamer working on iOS. Let's just
> say it felt like taking a drill to the head. The codebase depended on
> many Linux-specific dependencies (which did not exist on BSD) and some
> of them were very poorly maintained (committers who were unreachable or
> dead .. no joke .. for years). Once I got past that point, it used to
> break randomly in mysterious ways (i.e. the API's error handling sucks,
> once you report a bug it sits unfixed for months)
>
> I know that GStreamer is very popular and that GStreamer SDK has since
> been published for iOS and OSX, but I still don't trust that codebase. I
> wouldn't want to have to maintain a project on top of it.

Perhaps http://www.openwebrtc.io/ (which supports both codecs talked 
about) is of interest to you.
Regarding gstreamer and openh264: 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/ext/openh264 
is available.
And for iOS specifically there is also http://www.openwebrtc.io/bowser.

(I know, I should not have sent this on the list. I could not help 
myself, sorry. Please do not respond to the list - if you're interested 
head over to the gstreamer or openwebrtc channels.)

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