Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Video?

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

I'd like to see something done about this too, as I have a few music
videos in my library. I don't see why music videos should be second rate
citizens in Rhythmbox!

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 17:03 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> First, apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but well, it hasn't
> been brought up since.
> 
> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 17:29 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> > >>>>> "AT" == Adrian Thornton  writes:
> > 
> > AT> Rhythmbox won't play back any music vides from my shared iTunes
> > AT> library, nor will it play (the video in) video podcasts. Are you
> > AT> expecting to support video (even via a third-party player such as
> > AT> xine) in the near future? It would even be perfectly acceptable
> > AT> for Rhytmbox to go "oh wait, this is a video file, so I'll tell
> > AT> Xine to open it instead.
> > 
> > See the recent mailing list thread:
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-July/thread.html#00046
> > 
> > In particular James Livingston's post:
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-July/msg00048.html
> > 
> > Consensus is, if it could be integrated in a sensible way from a user
> > point of view, it could be done as a plugin.
> 
> If the Cover Art and Visualization plugins were reworked so the cover
> art area could be (one of the) places for the visualization, and the
> visualization plugin were modified so it handled the video stream, this
> would be a pretty simple (from a user perspective) way to present videos
> that gstreamer can handle.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Alex
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