Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Video for Rhythmbox

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 7/28/06, Mark Hewitt <mark hewitt1 ntlworld com> wrote:
> There was some talk a little while ago about incorporating a frontend
> for gstreamer video capabilities, maybe as a plugin. Is anyone looking
> at this right now? (I sincerely wish I could contribute with some code,
> but my coding is still very much neophyte stuff). I know people will say
> "we have to keep focus, and RB is an audio application, we don't want to
> get distracted with video features", but basically there is no good
> media library/player out there with video support, because everyone
> focusses on making the best audio player! Xine is best for video, but
> doesn't do the sexy stuff RB does as far as indexing big collections of
> files etc. I'd love to be able to add vids to my RB library and play
> them in the main window, rather than the clumsy Xine solution, spawning
> a new window for each window and so on. What do people think?

Maybe this is obvious to most, but I think it's worth mentioning: some
people who use RB for their podcasts (like I do) may want to use it
also for their vodcasting/vidcasting (whichever lame term is hip these
days).  I think a plugin at least for that would be very useful.