On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:46 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: <snip> > >> Is playlist support a must-have feature? If so, probably should be > >> handled by a GStreamer element. Fullscreen support should not be that > >> difficult, but I leave that to somebody else. > > > > Yes, it's a must-have. > > If you are trying to emulate other plugins then yes, I see how that > could be required.
Even a plugin that doesn't try to support the APIs of those foreign plugins will certainly need playlist support to be competitive... > > FWIW, you can probably have a complete web browser plugin in not much > > space by packaging it properly in a sub-package. > > > > $(libdir)/mozilla/plugins/* > > $(libexecdir)/totem-plugin-viewer > > This is one of the things I didn't like when I analyzed the totem > plugin: why require an external process? Because video decoders are rubbish, and you don't want to do video decoding in the same space as the web browser. A crafted video playing inside the web browser could make it send your whole password wallet to some website. With a separate program, it will just crash :) > > $(libdir)/libbaconvideowidget.so.0.0.0 (shared with Totem itself) > > $(pkgdatadir)/mozilla-viewer.ui > > $(pkgdatadir)/fullscreen.ui (shared with Totem itself) > > > > That comes in under a meg stripped... > > I guess it depends on what is required. Can certainly be smaller if you remove some of the compatibility plugins. _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
