On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe, > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Felipe Contreras > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 21:17 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> > Do you think website designers will use your plugin if it doesn't >>>> > support the basics? Your plugin would need to support enough features >>>> > for website developers to consider using it, otherwise they'll target >>>> > WMP or Quicktime, or possibly VLC if they're nice people. >>>> >>>> The context was non-emulating plugins. >>> >>> Website designers need to target a specific mime-type/plugin that will >>> support a documented API. You can either create your own mime-type, thus >>> plugin API, and nobody will use it (look on Google for the number of >>> sites supporting application/x-totem-plugin). Or you can emulate widely >>> used plugins from other platforms. >>> >>> Which mime-type would your plugin support then? >> >> video/x-msvideo >> video/divx >> video/avi >> video/ogg > > I don't think you get the point. Videos online aren't .avi files, or .wmv. > > They are .asx files, or quicktime *reference files* (not media files). > These are playlists. Your player won't play them, and gstreamer > doesn't support them. totem-pl-parser adds support for that. This > means that although wikicommons may work, cnn, nbc and abc won't, and > that's the videos that the larger audience will be trying to play.
I know that. > Nowadays, all these use flash or silverlight anyway, so all this > discussion is sort of from a previous era... Exactly, the only times I've personally needed an embedded player is to play videos in wikimedia (video/ogg) and stage6 (video/divx) (now defunct). -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
