Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

Yep, that's a concern - I believe we used QuickTime to play MP3s too so that would be even more wasteful. The answer might be to do this anyway so we enable videos embedded in web content, play video URLs with the LibVLC plugin and come up with a lightweight solution (FMODEx??) for MP3s. On Wed,

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

On May 18, 2016 at 5:40:18 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) (cal...@lindenlab.com ) wrote: Digesting all the suggestions here - thank you. Intrigued by Nicky's suggestion, I am currently trying to build CEF directly via Chromium - first attempt is without the extra

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

Digesting all the suggestions here - thank you. Intrigued by Nicky's suggestion, I am currently trying to build CEF directly via Chromium - first attempt is without the extra flags (proprietary_codecs=1 ffmpeg_branding=Chrome). Building the branch in use in the viewer failed with a bunch of

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

On Wed, 18 May 2016 12:16:27 +0200, Nicky D. wrote: > Point 1, bundling a lot of additional libraries probably also holds true > for libvlc. > One way or the other all those needed plugins need to end on the users PC, > no matter if it is gstreamer or vlc. True... I admit I didn't have a look at

Re: [opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

On Tue, 17 May 2016 16:32:01 -0700, Callum Prentice (Callum) wrote: > Understood Nicky - thanks for the insight. > > Messages here as well as some digging I've done today suggest that > trying to make GStreamer work on Windows is going to be fraught with > technical and legal issues. Technical,