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Bug 363822 - Video Playback
Video Playback
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: playback
HEAD
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
: 380759 557631 625861 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 412841
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-21 02:43 UTC by Matthew Wardrop
Modified: 2016-05-13 21:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Rhythmbox Video Mockup (112.78 KB, image/png)
2008-01-01 07:47 UTC, Nick Roberts
  Details
rb-add-video-1.patch (6.20 KB, patch)
2008-11-16 14:06 UTC, Bastien Nocera
needs-work Details | Review
Basic video support (6.33 KB, patch)
2011-02-20 21:18 UTC, Bastien Nocera
none Details | Review

Description Matthew Wardrop 2006-10-21 02:43:21 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
Comment 1 Alex Lancaster 2006-11-30 04:34:18 UTC
*** Bug 380759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Alex Lancaster 2006-11-30 04:34:56 UTC
Bug #380759 was a special case of this: supporting video podcasts.
Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2007-04-16 06:00:51 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Nick Roberts 2008-01-01 07:47:32 UTC
Created attachment 101933 [details]
Rhythmbox Video Mockup
Comment 5 Nick Roberts 2008-01-01 07:48:56 UTC
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.
Comment 6 Florian Dorn 2008-06-07 17:24:44 UTC
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.
Comment 7 Jonathan Matthew 2008-10-23 21:07:10 UTC
*** Bug 557631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Bastien Nocera 2008-11-16 14:06:34 UTC
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.
Comment 9 Jerico Dev 2010-07-05 01:43:56 UTC
FYI: Just submitted a patch to bug #412841, partially based on Bastien's patch, which introduces video podcast support to the ipod plug-in.
Comment 10 Jonathan Matthew 2010-08-02 22:54:26 UTC
*** Bug 625861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 trusktr 2010-08-05 05:42:34 UTC
So when will this be official!?!? :D :D :D
Comment 12 Carlos Solís 2010-10-30 17:17:57 UTC
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).
Comment 13 Bastien Nocera 2011-02-20 21:18:05 UTC
Created attachment 181426 [details] [review]
Basic video support