Re: Proposal for inclusion of mozilla-bonobo in 2.5

[Christian Glodt <chris mind lu>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:27, Julien Olivier wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:54, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:47:20PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > > Are there any cases for *requiring* this functionality in order to
> > > browse a site?
> > 
> > Yes - it's reasonably common to embed video within a site.
> 
> That's right but:
> 
>  - Can mozilla-bonobo embed videos 

Theoretically yes, although it can not yet stream the video into a
bonobo component. Currently it lets the browser download the file
into its cache, and then loads that file into a component.

> (are there any good bonobo-ized video
> players ? Totem ? gst-player ?)

None that I know of. But adding that functionality to totem (for
example) should not be very hard.

>  - Is there a way to get control widgets (play/pause and sliders) too ?

Yes, if a component has those they will of course be displayed and
usable.

Cheers,

Christian Glodt