Ken: > I spent a bit of last week looking at the latest SongBird and plugins to see > what we can do. > QuickTime and WMP playback are needed as primary concerns - even if just for YouTube folk. > Most plugins are tested against the Songbird 0.3.1 so we should be able to bring them over as well.
We need to be careful about adding plugins. We cannot distribute plugins that contain IP, for example. I'd think QuickTime and WMP would be problematic from this regard. I thought that our plan was to build SongBird with GStreamer and then it would just simply support whatever plugins GStreamer supports. Note that Fluendo does sell WindowsMedia plugins so there is a legal avenue for getting WindowsMedia support into GStreamer. I'm not sure about QuickTime. > So on my end, seems like we can just bring over SongBird with what we have > today and add > the plugins (there are a lot of plugins) as we progress. Also remember if we bring in a lot of new plugins that we need to take them through OSR (Open Source Review) before Songbird can be added to Nevada. If there are a lot of plugins, this will make the process more time consuming. Brian
