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GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg
While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly.
In the merge that landed just prior to this week's Local 3.9 beta it was summed up as:" - GStreamer's own modular support runs at odds with our extractor sandbox. - GStreamer's own modular support also means it's a whack-a-mole game to inhibit all those undesirable modules (e.g. video acceleration, webcams, ...) unrelated to metadata extraction. This Week in GNOME added on the change:"The LocalSearch filesystem extractor is switching from GStreamer to ffmpeg / libav for media file parsing in the next major release.
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