Re: [Totem] Browser plugin gstreamer

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 07:32 +0200, Mark Trompell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:39 +0200, Mark Trompell wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I didn't have a deep look into the code yet, I just wonder how much a
> >> browser plugin needs to depend on totem.
> >> Would it make sense to have a more generic gstreamer browser plugin,
> >> so there is no need for all gstreamer applications to write their own?
> >
> > Which GStreamer applications would need to write their own browser
> > plugin? I'm counting none, which would make the point moot.
> 
> That's the point, totem comes with a browser plugin to play embedded
> videofiles and stuff,
> but it pulls in a lot of totem. My point is why not have an
> application independent plugin.

Because there would be a lot of duplicated code between the two
otherwise.