[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 505456] [mmssrc] no support for socks proxies

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | Ver: HEAD CVS

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------- Comment #4 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-12-25 13:21 UTC -------
> Any special reason to rewrite mmssrc using gnet? I know libmms's code isn't
> the cleanest ever, but it works well. I also know upstream wasn't very 
> alive, but thats changed now they (I mostly) just released 0.4 .

I wanted an mmssrc with completely async networking code that works on both
*nix and win32. When I started it, libmms was still unmaintained, but also I
didn't really see the point of having/using an external libmms any more in the
first place seeing that GStreamer is more or less the only project using it
(back then the idea was to have a common external lib to share between the
different player projects, I guess, but that didn't really seem to work out).
Also, overall it just doesn't do a lot, ie. the core code is not a lot of lines
or even particularly complicated, so having an external lib for the mms stuff
doesn't seem to make that much sense to me.

> Note that libmms already uses gnet for url parsing, so I guess I could try
> using gnet for socks support too. But before investing time in this I would
> first like to know what the future of mmssrc is.

This gnetmmssrc thing is just something I started hacking on one day. It's
vapourware for all practical purposes, I probably shouldn't have mentioned it
at all. No one within the GStreamer project has made any decision that we need
or even want something like this.

> Or will you be using both gnet and libmms, using gnet to make an mmsio
> implementation?

I will just be using GNet for now (ie. until a portable network abstraction
layer is added to either GLib or GStreamer).


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