[Bug 1355] Review request: minitube - A YouTube desktop client

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355





--- Comment #33 from Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee>  2010-08-09 11:22:31 ---
I think our goal should be to support WebM out of the box (read: without having
to install extra packages from rpmfusion). Google appears to be interested in
switching from flash videos to WebM and is pushing for the support in web
browsers. My guess is that they'll soon have all videos converted to WebM so in
theory minitube should be able to play all content without needing flash.

Unfortunately, looks like our default Phonon backend (xine) needs ffmpeg for
WebM demuxing and vpx decoding. Gstreamer, however, supports WebM demuxing out
of the box and can decode vpx through libvpx without having to rely on ffmpeg.

Kevin Kofler: For a short while phonon-backend-gstreamer was the default in
rawhide, but it never made it into any releases. What were the problems with
it? Are there possibly any plans on trying to make gstreamer the default
backend again?

In any case, looks like minitube is currently unable to play any content
without ffmpeg, which means it'll have to go into rpmfusion. However, if
upstream fixes minitube to work with just with gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, I
think it should be good to go into Fedora proper. I'd be willing to re-review
it in Fedora in that case.

Is anybody here going to do the official rpmfusion review? If not, I can do
that.


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