Gnome 2.20: The video player offering download of a codec.

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.09.2007, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Sebastian Dröge schrieb:
> > IIRC for gnome-app-install we just need it to ship a codecs database
> > created from the gstreamer plugin package informations.
> >   
> Thank you for your fast (!) reply.
> 
> Does this mean, that gnome-app-install is a mandatory requirement for 
> this feature? If it's not installed, the usual 'codec not found' dialog 
> will appear?

No, but this is AFAIK the only application that currently is available
to do this. You can specify which application to use by using
--with-install-plugins-helper="/path/to/helper" in
gst-plugins-base0.10's configure to specify it. Maybe an alternative for
this makes sense later.