[Swfdec] some thoughts about both ffmpeg and gnome

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:47 +0200, Dennis Heuer wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:06:57 +0200
>> Dennis Heuer <dh at triple-media.com> wrote:
>>
>> > only that i have to click on the somewhat blurry "play" image is
>> > quite boring.
>>
>> i understand that this is because the user shall choose if he wants to
>> see a commercial, but he should first see if it is a commercial before
>> he has to decide. wouldn't a semi-transparent layer on top of the first
>> drawn frame be the better alternative?
>
> Please see another thread about the autoplay option.  It has been
> implemented, just not in an intuitive way.
>
> The flash file doesn't need to be a commercial.  But some files require
> a lot of resources, and it multiple tabs are open in the browser, they
> can take all CPU time.
>
> I'm not sure if rendering the first frame would be a good solution, as
> it would start the interpreter and use some resources.  Besides, I'm not
> sure if it can always be determined when the flash file is done with the
> first frame.

There's swfdec-thumbnailer already. If you worry about resource usage
(in long term I suppose), just spawn swfdec-thumbnailer and cache the
image.
-- 
Duy