[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 35747] [GStreamer] Poll messages from the bus if the player is not runned inside a glib mainloop

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35747





--- Comment #9 from Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at apple.com>  2010-03-11 13:01:19 PST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > Eric, could you share some thoughts on this? =D
> > 
> > Well, I know *nothing* about the gtk main loop but I wonder if it is a good
> > idea to do this by default, even on Mac in Windows. 
> 
> My question is more along the lines of - would it be a problem to add running
> the glib main loop along with the win/mac mainloop if you decide to build those
> ports with the GStreamer backend included? That would mean adding this call:
> 
I don't know :-(

> > I assume anyone using WebKit with the GStreamer backend in their app will be
> > building from source, so why not make it a compile time option?
> 
> Yes, build time option defeats runtime choice, IMO.
My point was that *if* people that want to use the GStreamer backend are likely
to build WebKit, they can easily enable polling if their app doesn't already
run the gtk main loop.

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