[Bug 63304] Re: Old xine-lib causes crash in xine-based media players

[zenrox]

thats the thang if we used a built in ver then it wont mess up other
apps when we swap out for a newer ffmpeg

On 11/8/06, John Dong <john.dong at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it has nothing to do with performance. Xine ships with its own
> version of ffmpeg built in. You can tell it to use that, or the system's
> version of ffmpeg.
>
> The latter is typically used, but in the case of dapper the system's
> ffmpeg is somewhat old, and we might get better result with the built-in
> ffmpeg.
>
> The only problem(s) are:
> (1) requires a source-change. Not impossible, a core-dev can do that.
> (2) Could introduce bugs because I don't think the internal ffmpeg went through much testing in Ubuntu.
>
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> Old xine-lib causes crash in xine-based media players
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/63304
>

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Old xine-lib causes crash in xine-based media players
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63304