Re: 3.6 Feature: Totem -> Videos

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>]

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 21:09 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > 
> > * Tivo-like pausing.  The phone rings and you stop paying attention to
> > the TV or screen; by the time you hit Pause you've missed some of the
> > movie's conversation, so you then need to rewind a bit, which is
> > awkward.
> 
> Ring buffer supports needs (or rather needed) work on the GStreamer
> side. I haven't looked into it since the last round of buffering
> improvements (when we added download buffering), but it should be
> implementable now. Feel free to file a bug, I thought we already had one
> but I guess not.

Thanks, done - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675464

[Connection with a BitTorrent client]
> We'll either use Tracker or monitor some directories to look for new,
> local videos. You'll just need to configure your download system to put
> them in the right location once done.

Sounds like the easiest thing to do, and it makes perfect sense.  
As a drive-by suggestion - make it so the configured directory is
scanned recursively, for when you end up
downloading both VideoDir/SomeNewTitle/{foo.avi,foo.txt} :)

  Federico