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.