[Qt4-preview-feedback] X11 WebKit media options

[Barney Morrison-Lyons]

Okay interesting. This does throw up one flaw in the WebKit plugin
architecture - if your system has an unsupported plugin like the mplayer
plugin already installed for firefox, it will seg fault and webkit will
crash if you navigate to a page containing the plug in format.

Are there any alternatives to mplayer plugin for wma / quick time or is
it worth looking at removing the xpcom dependency? You can't do anything
fancy with Phonon here can you?



Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009 ext Thiago Macieira, wrote:
>   
>> Em Segunda-feira 09 Fevereiro 2009, às 14:28:32, Barney Morrison-Lyons
>> escreveu:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me whether any further plugin support is planned for
>>> Linux X11 apart from Flash? Is there a 'how to build' page? I'm trying
>>> to use the mplayer plugin for playing Windows Media and Quick Time but
>>> it crashes on Qt, not on firefox. Any tips on how to update the plug in
>>> to get it working properly? The ability to support all media formats on
>>> all platforms would make the WebKit a killer....
>>>       
>> The WebKit feature is to support any kind of Netscape Plugin API plugins. 
>>     
> That
>   
>> should include the mplayer plugin.
>>
>> However, we have not tested it.
>>     
>
> Note that the mplayer plugin and many other plugins are not pure NPAPI plugins 
> but also require the availabity of xpcom at run-time and therefore don't work 
> in environments that do not support xpcom (like QtWebKit).
>
>
> Simon
>
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