On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 22:47 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > <snip> >> No, Milosz Derezynski was the one who suggested that, possibly >> assuming that the issue Mark saw with totem was the fact that it >> needed too many dependencies. > > Depends on GTK+, gvfs and a media framework, when built that way, and > hopefully soon just that (ie. we'll have dropped the libgnomeui > dependency). > >> As a reference there is gst-simple-player which is a bare-bones >> application I started. >> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gst-player/ >> >> And there's a couple of GTK+ widgets David Schleef started: >> http://diracvideo.org/git?p=gst-gtk-widgets.git > > It would be smaller because it has less features :)
That's the point of being simple. >> I believe what Mark Trompell was looking for was a simple browser >> plugin that could use simple stuff as those above. > > <snip> >> > Which mime-type would your plugin support then? >> >> video/x-msvideo >> video/divx >> video/avi >> video/ogg > > For the first and the third, a lot of websites will be thinking they > have a WMP plugin, which will then not work on those sites. And because > of the way the more popular web browsers work, you won't be able to only > use your plugin for the one site. Doesn't WMP use application/x-oleobject ? > So you'll need to either invent a new mime-type, for web developers to > use, or mimic the expected behaviour. According to the spec setting the URI in the data field is all that should really be required: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT All the other plugins are just complicating things. > In all cases, I think the point of this discussion is moot. Totem will > have less dependencies in the future, and it's already installed by > default on a number of distributions. I don't know what was the intention of Mark. But if Totem only requires GTK+ and GStreamer probably is good enough. Best regards. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
