Re: 3.6 Feature: Totem -> Videos

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 03:33 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2012/4/24 Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
>         * Some sort of connection with a BitTorrent client.  I know
>         this is
>         treading on taboo ground, but I assume that a lot of people
>         download
>         torrents and then manually have to select which of the
>         downloaded files
>         to view with Totem - it's just cumbersome.
>         
> 
> 
> If you ask me, I think torrents should be integrated in the browser,
> no other browser implements this and would make the torrent
> downloading experience much more transparent to the user.
> 
> After that you get the same workflow as any other downloaded file. For
> Totem, or any other app, the challenge is, torrent hold multple files,
> so there's no torrent-videofile 1:1 map.
> 
> The really cool workflow would be for Totem to be able to subscribe to
> a torrent site RSS dedicated to video like vodo.net's

Totem uses grilo to discover content. There's no stopping you from
implementing a grilo plugin to browse and download files, and a totem
one to control this downloading.

Not something I'm interested in working on though.