- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:53:17 +0300
On Aug 20, 2008, at 12:39, timeless wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> > wrote: >> Would the situation be any different for the <source> element >> fallback? > > yes. people wouldn't try to ask us questions we can't answer. instead > they'd be giving gecko lots of data and it'd figure it out. [...] >> but ships with the GStreamer back end and a third party provides an >> Ogg >> plugin for GStreamer, as a user I'd want video on Wikipedia to Just >> Work if >> the third-party GStreamer Ogg plugin is installed. > > yes, i'd expect it to just work. however i'd also expect the apis not > to work correctly. which means we'd probably be stuck with a case > where we either lie and say ogg isn't supported (because we have no > way to figure out if it's supported), which means it wouldn't work. or > we'd lie and say it is supported (which means that if someone sniffs > for ogg first, they'd send you ogg only and you would get nothing). Wouldn't it follow that dispatch based on the attributes on the <source> element wouldn't work, either? Doesn't GStreamer have any working API for querying what capabilities it has installed? > people should just provide <source> tags for all formats they have in > the order in which they'd like to send them. let the user agents > figure it out. Do you mean trying to download each video, giving it to GStreaming and seeing if an error code comes back? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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