[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Mozilla Plugin

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

<20020227130754.5dbcd546.a.docherty at student.unsw.edu.au>; from a.docherty at student.unsw.edu.au on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:07:54PM +1300
> After having a look at the options, plugger (which i could never get to work
> with mozilla) and mozstreamer which I could never compile, I would like
> to see the following in an mplayer plugin:
> 
> * ability to play embedded media player files (asx asf)
> 	(as mplayer does this already it only requires passing
> 	the correct window and src info to mplayer)
> * minimal gui components, initially play, pause, stop and a progress
>  	bar.
Yes, very nice, i think mozzila should provide api for this?

> * XPCOM components to enable script interaction with the plugin
> 	(compatible with media player)
What's that?

> * Interactive stream download (ala quicktime) so the stream can be
> 	progressivly saved and replayed.
Needed!

> 
> I plan to do use the existing gui implementation get embedded and
> mplayer output and minimal buttons running. The other points can
> wait for that to be acheived.

This looks very nice. You know, this should be implemented in the mozzila
plugin, not in mplayer - you need to call mplayer as external program with
-slave switch.

-
alex