From: Benjamin O. <in...@pu...> - 2002-01-19 04:21:23
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andy Wingo wrote: > > > > 4) URIs > > > > > > yes, like a plugable uriprovider function that can be registered > > > somewhere. you then say: give me something that can handle http:// > > > > and the syntax would be gst-launch urisrc location=foo://bar > > > > (ie, you'd have a 'urisrc' element) > > er... sorry. wasn't thinking. yes, gnomevfs should be used here, because > if you want "cdparanoia://" you already know what plugin you want > anyway. and we do have gnomevfssrc, and it works quite well. hey, with > that new patch, you might even be able to stream porn from newsgroups. > now that's extensible ;) I'm not quite sure if that would be the right way because - filesrc might be faster/better than gnomevfs (this might be the case for other plugins, too) - cd access could work with other things than with cdparanoia - generally choice between different access methods is better. But that requires a configuration system... Anyway, the fact that you would force yourself to use a file system provider when you really want a stream provider is not that appealing to me. But I'd support the use of gnomevfs syntax any day. Benjamin |