Re: [Totem] Browser plugin gstreamer

I'd even propose (cautiously obviously and only hypothetically, i don't want
to step on anyone's toes :P) factoring out the core video playback engine of
Totem out into a separate library, so that we have a generic reusable video
player component in the GNOME stack, with a minimal set of dependencies, and
then base the browser plugin and Totem on it.

2008/8/19 Bastien Nocera <[email protected]>

> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:46 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> <snip>
> > >> 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.
>
> Even a plugin that doesn't try to support the APIs of those foreign
> plugins will certainly need playlist support to be competitive...
>
> > > 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?
>
> Because video decoders are rubbish, and you don't want to do video
> decoding in the same space as the web browser. A crafted video playing
> inside the web browser could make it send your whole password wallet to
> some website. With a separate program, it will just crash :)
>
> > > $(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.
>
> Can certainly be smaller if you remove some of the compatibility
> plugins.
>
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