[opensource-dev] Quicktime

[Henri Beauchamp]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:50:13 +0100, Whirly Fizzle wrote:

> Quite a few widely used SL TV sets still use quicktime media. Those
> TV sets no longer play the movies now I've uninstalled quicktime
> from my Windows box.

Yep.

> It appears LL are removing quicktime support from their viewer
> https://bitbucket.org/callum_linden/viewer-release-noqt

I already tried (months ago, when I noticed that the VS2012 builds were
not producing a valid QuickTime plugin with the old QuickTime SDK) the
trick consisting in replacing all occurrences of media_plugin_quicktime
with media_plugin_cef (or even media_plugin_webkit; Webkit too, could
play media, mind you...) in the mime_types.xml file for Windows, but got
faced with the same problem as the one described by Nicky in the last
commit to that experimental viewer
(https://bitbucket.org/callum_linden/viewer-release-noqt/commits/540b99f9160fa478cade308f388e9303ed98b232)

Many media URLs are then considered as files for download by CEF,
causing a rejection of the URL and a failure to play the media.

Plus, frankly, is it reasonnable to launch a new instance of CEF (i.e.
a *full* embedded web browser instance, using over 80Mb of memory while
the QuickTime plugin uses 100 times less) for *each* playing media on
surrounding prims ?  That's a bit like using a hammer and an anvil to
squash a bug, don't you think so ?... Quite inelegant !  YUCK !!!

Like I already wrote earlier, the way to go is to use the gstreamer SDK
for Windows and get a gstreamer plugin compiled for the latter.

Henri.