Brian Cameron wrote: > 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. > > Yeah - that's the plan. OpenSolaris & Linux shouldn't require the Quicktime/WMP plugins at all.
>> 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. > We shouldn't need to OSR any of the addons - they are all downloaded and installed upon the user's first-run. They aren't bundled with the app at all. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
