Re: [xine-devel] xine-lib wishlist and totem

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

Hi Bastien,

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 20:45, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> GStreamer has an "autoplug" plugin (the new autoplug is called spider).
> It's responsible for guessing which plugins it should use.
> 
> So instead of loading every single plugin, you just move the "discover
> by content" code from the plugin to the core.

i'm sure i'm missing something, doesn't it defeats the whole idea of
having plugins? i mean, if i add a new plugin to an already installed
GStreamer core how autoplug will know about it?

> One way to do it would be to cache the plugins'
> capabilities in some config files. Xine would create it the first time
> it's run, or whenever the plugins have changed.

Sounds a good idea...

regards,

Miguel