converting container formats

[Michael Lawrence <lawremi gmail com>]

Hi,

Rygel
 supports transcoding, but what about just converting between container 
formats, like FLV to AVI or MKV? This will help with renderer 
compatibility without actually transcoding the stream between codecs. 
And in general, would there be some easy way for people to specify such 
transcodings/conversions using GStreamer pipelines without having to 
extend RygelTranscoder? I apologize for not being very familiar with 
GStreamer.

As an aside, if Rygel gets an HTTP URL, from say a DBus provider, 
and that URL requires cookies to access, would there be any feasible way
 of giving those cookies to Rygel?

Thanks,
Michael