[webkit-dev] [WinCairo] : ENABLE_VIDEO => how to activate HTML5 video tag ?

[Philippe Normand]

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 22:09 +0530, Mital Vora wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have few questions regarding move to Gstreamer. 
> 
> 
> * are we gonna replace the existing openssl and curl with libsoup ?
> 

1. GStreamer doesn't depend on those libraries.
2. For HTTP(S) media access we have a dedicated source element in WebKit
that uses the WebCore ResourceLoader to fetch data.

> 
> * are we considering any other possibilities besides gstreamer like
> ffmpeg (http://www.ffmpeg.org/) or any other. 
> 

Feel free to provide a MediaPlayerPrivateFFMpeg if you want. But be
ready to maintain it too :)

> 
> By moving to gstreamer would increase dependencies size a lot as the
> all GTK base libraries would be included by default and this would be
> concern to atleast few of us who does not want to increase the webkit
> base dependencies library by huge amount. 
> 
> 
> I may be missing something here..  can anybody clarify the advantages
> of moving to gtk based gstreamer over the other side like the binary
> size increase. 
> 
> 

> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mital Vora.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Brendan Long <self at brendanlong.com>
> wrote:
>         On 10/14/2013 04:14 AM, gstreamer MACOSX wrote:
>         
>         > Exactly, Philippe: I searched everywhere by D:\Users
>         > \gstreamermacosx\webkit\Source but without any success.  
>         > I applyed this command like my counterparts ... :
>         > > git clone http://git.igalia.com/webkit.git 
>         > Is it correct ? In fact, there is not even any Source/WTF
>         > sub-folder.
>         I think he meant you should use the normal repo:
>         git clone git://git.webkit.org/WebKit.git
>         (Or use SVN if you're into that?)
>         
>         Rebasing a patch from a 3-year-old checkout would be extremely
>         difficult, so it's easier to figure out what the patch does,
>         and re-apply it manually on a new checkout.
>         
>         
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