[Swfdec] make swfdec a gstreamer backend?

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On 7/27/07, Benjamin Otte <otte at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hey,
Hi,

>
> First of all, see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gstreamer.devel/17524 - it
> has some general stuff about GStreamer, including why I didn't made
> Swfdec a GStreamer plugin.

Yeah. I should have searched before asking :(

> The idea to make a GStreamer plugin has come up a lot though, but not
> for using it as playback (do you want a play button and a seek bar
> below every Flash?), but for transcoding Flash movies to Theora or
> AVI. But so far noone started work on this.

I don't really mind seeing those dead buttons. Flash movies (.flv) can
be played by totem already so I suppose transcoding them could be done
with a magic gst-launch command? Ah there are also flash movies as
.swf, I forgot.

> As for Epiphany, the Swfdec-Mozilla plugin works fine there (I'm using
> it). What I'd like to happen though is a better integration into
> Epiphany. So that instead of the Right Click->Properties you can have
> the stuff included in the View->Page Information menu.

I see your point.

> Benjamin
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Duy