On Wed, 18 May 2016 21:49:46 -0700, Darien Caldwell wrote: > Using CEF for media is what I've been saying since CEF support was > announced for the viewer. I think it would be a clean solution.
That solution would be plain *dirty* and totally wasteful (about 80Mb per new CEF plugin instance), it would also be a big issue for old computers and 32 bits OSes (and yes, there are still people using those, mind you !). Like I wrote in this list in an earlier message, using the CEF plugin to play streaming shared media is plain YUCK ! > The viewer already runs 3 instances of CEF at startup, Speak for your viewer... The Cool VL Viewer doesn't have any CEF (or QtWebkit, since it can also still use that one, for Windows XP users, who can't have a working CEF: the Windows CEF pre-built library is not compiled any more to support Windows XP...) plugin running unless there is a web media/UI element open. > using one of those for media wouldn't really add any additional load. You would need *one instance per shared media face*, not just one for all shared media around ! It would be tremendously wasteful of resources and would slow down things (CEF needs to refresh its frames 60 times per second, and it's not especially speedy when compared to a plain video stream played via gstreamer or VLC, the latter two also be playing the stream only at its native frame rate, never more). > The viewer is already using something else (FMODEX maybe) for MP3, as > it works without Quicktime installed. Yes, using FMOD Ex for playing plain sound shared media is an option, but since the latter are rather rare (audio streams in SL are usually played via the parcel streaming music channel), it would be acceptable to use gstreamer (which is not much more more wasteful than FMOD and is also, by designed, adapated to plain sound stream playin) or vlc (there would likeley be wome wastage here, since AFAIK vlc is primarily designed to play video streams). Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
