Re: [Totem] Browser plugin gstreamer
- From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>
- To: "Bastien Nocera" <hadess hadess net>
- Cc: gnome-multimedia gnome org, Mark Trompell <mark foresightlinux org>
- Subject: Re: [Totem] Browser plugin gstreamer
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:46:14 +0300
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:16 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> <snip>
>> 4 most popular plugins? It's implemented using NPAPI [1]
>
> I wrote a web browser plugin already, I know what NPAPI is ;)
I didn't recall you wrote it. In any case it helps for reference.
>> , so in theory
>> should be supported by: Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox,
>> Safari, Opera, Konqueror and some versions of Microsoft Internet
>> Explorer.
>
> That's not what I meant. You'll need to support Real Player, Windows
> Media Player, QuickTime and VLC nowadays. Our support for the first one
> is really sketchy, but the other 3 are complete enough to work with a
> majority of websites.
Ah, now I see what you mean: plugin emulation? I never use that, so I
forgot about it.
>> Is playlist support a must-have feature? If so, probably should be
>> handled by a GStreamer element. Fullscreen support should not be that
>> difficult, but I leave that to somebody else.
>
> Yes, it's a must-have.
If you are trying to emulate other plugins then yes, I see how that
could be required.
> FWIW, you can probably have a complete web browser plugin in not much
> space by packaging it properly in a sub-package.
>
> $(libdir)/mozilla/plugins/*
> $(libexecdir)/totem-plugin-viewer
This is one of the things I didn't like when I analyzed the totem
plugin: why require an external process?
> $(libdir)/libbaconvideowidget.so.0.0.0 (shared with Totem itself)
> $(pkgdatadir)/mozilla-viewer.ui
> $(pkgdatadir)/fullscreen.ui (shared with Totem itself)
>
> That comes in under a meg stripped...
I guess it depends on what is required.
Best regards.
--
Felipe Contreras
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