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Bug 765312 - player: Handle authentication
player: Handle authentication
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-bad
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-20 10:58 UTC by Sebastian Dröge (slomo)
Modified: 2018-11-03 13:49 UTC
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Description Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-04-20 10:58:14 UTC 
See https://github.com/sdroege/gst-player/issues/94

This probably also should get some API improvements in the lower layers, like an authentication interface.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2016-07-25 12:15:22 UTC 
What's our plan for this?

Adding user-id and user-pw options to the new config object is trivial but doesn't solve the "ask user about credentials" part.

We could also have this kind of interface implemented by GstPlayer:

gboolean (GstAuthenticationCallBack *) (GstObject *self,
    gchar **user,
    gchar **password,
    gpointer user_data);

void gst_authentication_register_callback (GstObject * self,
    GstAuthenticationCallBack cb,
    gpointer user_data);


What do you mean about "API improvements in the lower layers"? Like having messages and events asking/providing credentials?
Comment 2 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2016-07-25 12:30:48 UTC 
I think we need some kind of authentication interface for elements as a first step. I thought there was a bug about that but I couldn't find it now.

Tricky part about the callbacks is that you ideally want them in an application specific thread. Applications usually want to show some UI :)
Comment 3 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 13:49:19 UTC 
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