[gst-devel] media player issues

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andy Wingo wrote:
> > > 4) URIs
> > 
> > yes, like a plugable uriprovider function that can be registered
> > somewhere. you then say: give me something that can handle http://
> 
> and the syntax would be gst-launch urisrc location=foo://bar
> 
> (ie, you'd have a 'urisrc' element)

er... sorry. wasn't thinking. yes, gnomevfs should be used here, because
if you want "cdparanoia://" you already know what plugin you want
anyway. and we do have gnomevfssrc, and it works quite well. hey, with
that new patch, you might even be able to stream porn from newsgroups.
now that's extensible ;)

regards.

wingo