[PD] readanysf~ v0.30

[august]

> I don't know gavl, but it if it is close to as good as vlc/mplayer/ 
> ffmpeg for reading codecs, it would be an improvement over Quicktime.   

it is very close to vlc/mplayer/ffmpeg.  in fact, it might even read
more formats depending on what options you compile in.

> gavl is already in macports so making a fink package should be easy,  
> then it could be part of the nightly builds.
> 
> What about using ffmpeg for something like readanysf~?  Its much more  
> widely deployed, its even on Windows.

the gavl/gmerlin_avdecoder combo uses libavcodec and libavformat from
ffmpeg (as does mplayer) to play a lot of encoded audio/video streams.
In addition to that, (like mplayer and I assuem VLC) it links in other
libs to decode even more types of audio/video streams.

> Another option is to check in a version of gavl and the related  
> packages to the pure-data SVN and have it build the library then build  
> readanysf~.  Since gavl/gmerlin is not fully packaged on any platform,  
> I think this makes sense.

yes, and AFAIK the gavl package in debian is already over a year old and
is not compatible with readanysf~.   

-a.