[opensource-dev] Replacement for QuickTime media plugin - a straw man proposal

Henri Beauchamp sldev at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 4 07:20:43 PDT 2016


On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 06:52:58 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:

> 
> > 		• Ask for help from open source developer community to
> create a version for Linux using LibVLC
> 
> Since Linux currently doesn’t use Quicktime, why doe it need to be
> converted?

Quicktime media plays just fine under Linux, thank you !...

It needs to be converted for the sake of having an uniform set of plugins
with the same capabilities on all OSes...
Also, the gstreamer plugin, while working just fine (again, for Quicktime
media included), would need the viewer code to be changed (it's doable
hoewever) if it would be kept along other plugins (the new CEF3 plugin,
without media textures flipping, and now the VLC plugin), since media
textures are flipped upside down when compared to the old way of
rendering them (which matched the gstreamer, the Quicktime and the
QtWebkit plugins).

Henri.


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