[FFmpeg-devel] Microsoft Smoothstreaming - Need help

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 10:22, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> > On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 10:07, Florent Tribouilloy wrote:
> >> On 07/21/2013 08:16 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> >On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 12:22, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> >> >>On date Thursday 2013-07-18 17:34:27 +0200, Florent Tribouilloy encoded:
> >> >>>1) The Manifest used by server-client is in XML.
> >> >>>I used the libexpat to solve it. I suppose there are some problem
> >> >>>due to dependancy to add.
> >>
> >> >>>Anyway, I need help for the second point and have to know what you
> >> >>>think about the XML part (use libexpat or not?)
> >> >>
> >> >>About XML, I'm not againt it if we have no alternative solution (an
> >> >>ffxml implementation seems overkill, while pseudo parsing would be
> >> >>underkill). Make sure to document the requirement in the docs.
> >> >
> >> >Have you tried using tinyxml? It's roughly half the size of expat.
> >>
> >> "TinyXML is a simple, small, minimal, C++ XML parser"
> >> Is it a good idea to mix C and C++ (even if it is a library)?
> >
> > Right. We'd better avoid a dependency on libstdc++.
> > What about libroxml? http://www.libroxml.net/ . The website claims:
> > "The stripped binary is about 50K."
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dominik
> 
> Whats wrong with libxml2?
> Granted, it will most likely be huge in comparison to some of those
> "tiny" libraries, however its also most likely already present on most
> *nix systems.

FFmpeg targets the embedded environments, too. IMHO the best option
would be to support both libxml2/expat and one of the tiny libraries.

Regards,
Dominik
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