[Swfdec] some thoughts about both ffmpeg and gnome

[Pavel Roskin]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 02:32 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

It's nice to see that functionality, but perhaps it should be moved to
swfdec to be useful for the Mozilla plugin.

Of course, if getting the thumbnail is comparable to running the flash
file normally, I'd rather keep the existing implementation, maybe with a
nicer looking play button.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin