[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 439091] Play video file convenience function

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  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: HEAD CVS

Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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  Attachment #88327|none                        |rejected
               Flag|                            |
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE
            Summary|Play video file convience   |Play video file convenience
                   |function                    |function
   Target Milestone|HEAD                        |NONE




------- Comment #3 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-05-17 11:36 UTC -------
This looks a lot like bug #424157.

I don't really see the point of this convenience function. It doesn't really do
any heavy lifting at all, and the little that it does isn't really entirely
right. In order to meaningfully interact with a returned playbin element you
still need to know a lot of GStreamer stuff anyway (how to use the bus, handle
messages, state changes, buffering, querying, etc.).


I think it makes a lot more sense to put something like this in a separate
helper library that then also includes a GtkWidget or QtWidget or whatever,
because getting the xoverlay stuff right is the really hard part IMHO, and
handling for that can't be in the core. Very few applications that want to play
video will be fine with having the video play in a randomly-placed
newly-created X window that just pops up somewhere on your desktop and that the
application has no control over. Creating a playbin element and setting an URI
on it is unlikely to pose a problem for most developers IMHO.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 424157 ***


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