GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 363822
Video Playback
Last modified: 2016-05-13 21:24:07 UTC
I think I have read earlier about this request in the mailing lists, but could not find it in the bug list. Is it possible to add video support to Rhythmbox, seeing as Gstreamer already supports it? Kind Regards, Matthew
*** Bug 380759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug #380759 was a special case of this: supporting video podcasts.
Mailing list thread discussing this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-July/thread.html#00046 In particular James Livingston's post: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-July/msg00048.html Consensus from these threads appears to be that if it could be integrated in a sensible way from a user point of view, it could be done as a plugin.
Created attachment 101933 [details] Rhythmbox Video Mockup
Comment on attachment 101933 [details] Rhythmbox Video Mockup I made a quick mockup of what I think would be a user friendly video plugin integration into Rhythmbox. I'm not a programmer, so I can't make a pugin or really help at all besides give ideas.
Some time ago I have started with a video plugin. I set-up a project on google code (http://code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-videosource/) and commited the first code. If you are going to try it out, note, that the preferences UI is still incomplete (saving is broken). So please change __init.py__ (68): self.mysource.setLibrary('/media/toolbox/'). The video is displayed using the visualizer plugin (no changes were necessary). However this only works if cross fading is disabled ("Preferences"->"Playback"). some work has to be done there to disable the visualizers if the played back item already has a video stream. Any one interest please give it a try and comment.
*** Bug 557631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 122792 [details] [review] rb-add-video-1.patch This patch makes it possible to import videos. Another patch would need to add a Video source, and another one adding proper video playback support (will need to look at how we could potentially use Totem, or the totem video widget for that). Might also need to add more properties like dimensions, etc.
FYI: Just submitted a patch to bug #412841, partially based on Bastien's patch, which introduces video podcast support to the ipod plug-in.
*** Bug 625861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So when will this be official!?!? :D :D :D
Apparently the plugin by Florian Dorn ( http://code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-videosource/ ) has been abandoned since Florian has had no time to continue programming it. If the Rhythmbox developers could make us the favor of taking the plugin, finishing it and commiting the changes in the main program, then we would finally have a complete media player (right now Rhythmbox is a music player only).
Created attachment 181426 [details] [review] Basic video support