Re: Proposal for inclusion of mozilla-bonobo in 2.5

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:42, Christian Glodt wrote:
> 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.
Actually we have a bonobo component in gst-player. Which is used for
the gst-player nautilus-view for instance. It isn't great, but it 
isn't desupported by us so the plan long term is to get in into shape. 

Guess I should talk with Julien to see if we should consider proposing
gst-player for GNOME 2.6.

Christian