[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 558450] New plugin: curlsrc, a libcurl-based http source

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------- Comment #2 from Cirjan, Dragos  2008-10-30 19:21 UTC -------
I was forced to make a new http plugin for only one reason: Heave you ever
tried to play IP Video Cameras which have only JPEG encoding (pure jpeg, not
motion jpeg)? I can point to you a few of those. 

I had no ideea how to work with soup, since I'm not familiar with the
technology, neon is as far away as soup, I didn't even try to get she sources
and modify it. My plugin has a repeat option, which allows repeated source
reading (which allows you to play transform jpeg sources into motion jpeg only
by rereading the source infinite times).

I do not intend to go as far as adding this source plugin to GStreamer, but I
really need it tested by other people since this specific plugin will remain
under GPL licence. Even more... my company will probably make it public really
soon and give people the possibility of choosing which plugin they will use
with the rest of your non GPL plugins.

We're working with ip cameras most of the time and we're developing plugins for
geting the info from them.

About the sugestion, the name of the plugin can be changed if easily, and is
not a real problem right now. I cannot change it though, because I do not
intend to use curlsrc only as a http. As you well know, curl supports plenty of
other protocols, and during time I intend of extending curlsrc to use not only
http protocol, but almost all the protocols curl supports.

Hm... this may become a good reason of inserting curlsrc in Gstreamer. Don't
you think?

I don't understand why icecast is such a problem, but I will eventually try and
fix that also, if you make a big fuzz because of it. This plugin was not
intended for that kind of stuff, but... why not? I just need to test and
modify. 

Chris


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