On Aug 20, 2008, at 12:39, timeless wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Would the situation be any different for the <source> element
fallback?
yes. people wouldn't try to ask us questions we can't answer. instead
they'd be giving gecko lots of data and it'd figure it out.
[...]
but ships with the GStreamer back end and a third party provides an
Ogg
plugin for GStreamer, as a user I'd want video on Wikipedia to Just
Work if
the third-party GStreamer Ogg plugin is installed.
yes, i'd expect it to just work. however i'd also expect the apis not
to work correctly. which means we'd probably be stuck with a case
where we either lie and say ogg isn't supported (because we have no
way to figure out if it's supported), which means it wouldn't work. or
we'd lie and say it is supported (which means that if someone sniffs
for ogg first, they'd send you ogg only and you would get nothing).
Wouldn't it follow that dispatch based on the attributes on the
<source> element wouldn't work, either?
Doesn't GStreamer have any working API for querying what capabilities
it has installed?
people should just provide <source> tags for all formats they have in
the order in which they'd like to send them. let the user agents
figure it out.
Do you mean trying to download each video, giving it to GStreaming and
seeing if an error code comes back?
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Henri Sivonen
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