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GTK-based Mastodon client for Linux
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Calling a video player for video/media #64

Closed lanodan closed 4 years ago

lanodan commented 6 years ago

Currently tootle calls a web browser for playing a video, which is very overkill. I don’t know if GTK got a video widget (as Qt or KDE does), but it would be nice if it could at least be configurable to call a video player instead.

alcinnz commented 6 years ago

I don't think it's available in Juno yet, but there's a video widget coming in GTK4.

But I think until then it'd be appropriate to just play silent videos in a loop using GStreamer.

lanodan commented 6 years ago

But I think until then it'd be appropriate to just play silent videos in a loop using GStreamer.

Yes, but if possible without autoplay, for example with click-to-play / click-to-pause (accessibility but also bandwidth/memory usage).

alcinnz commented 6 years ago

@lanodan It's certainly possible, and desirable. But it's quite clearly out-of-scope for GStreamer, so Tootle would have to implement it itself.

On the otherhand it's such a simple interaction it should be trivial to implement.