On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:43:42PM +0200, Dag Hovland wrote: > Hi! > > Following up on Nutchanon Wetchasit's comments to support issue > https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109027, > I tested replacing the gtk plugin installation calls in > llibmedia/gst/GstUtil.cpp with the async variant. > > Background: > > When some plugin is lacking, gtk-gnash may call gtk libraries to > install the relevant plugins. > The current behaviour is to use a blocking call, which leaves gnash > frozen until the call returns. (I had an experience with the gtk > plugin installer freezing.) > Using the async call is encouraged by the gtk manual: > > https://developer.gnome.org/gst-plugins-libs/0.10/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html#gst-install-plugins-async > > The only downside, is that if you are playing a movie, you probably > would prefer the movie to stop until your plugin is installed.
Would it make sense to add a GnashRC directive to let the user tweak the behavior ? Or could the user be notified of need to reload the movie in order to be able to see it after the plugin is installed ? --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list Gnash-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
