[Bug 679850] Add function to pretty-print durations

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679850

--- Comment #10 from Bastien Nocera <bugzilla at hadess.net> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #9)
> (In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #8)
> 
> > For totem, it would be:
> > - being able to show the elapsed time as well as the remaining time
> 
> How would that work API-wise? You can calculate the remaining time yourself
> from the duration and the position, both of which have queries.
> 
> > - omitting (days?) hours, minutes if not present in either elapsed or
> > remaining (eg. a 1h30 minutes film would always show the hours in both
> > strings)
> > - i18n
> 
> This all sounds to me like something that should be in totem instead, or in
> some GNOME/GTK media widget library.

It's already in totem. It's also in buzztard. It would probably be in nearly
every app that ends up using GstPlayer.

The goal here was to make it easier for apps, sharing code. If that's not
wanted, then please close the bug saying so. Comment 5 said "not enough
context" even though there was context in the first few comments.

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