which video player for a package Requires ?

Nicoleau Fabien nicoleau.fabien at gmail.com
Wed May 25 11:02:34 UTC 2011


Le 25/05/2011 12:58, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:26 +0200, Nicoleau Fabien wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm packaging a software that downloads videos from websites like
>> youtube, dailymotion, etc ...
>>
>> This software also allow the user to launch a video player that will
>> read the video as a stream.
>>
>> The default value in the configuration file for the video player is "vlc
>> --quiet %u".
> That sounds like quvi. Which you probably wouldn't want to use on the
> command-line unless you knew what you were doing.
>
>> My question is :
>> what am I suppose to set in "Requires" field for the package ? totem ?
>> something generic ? nothing ?
> Nothing.
>
> FWIW, Totem has builtin support for quvi (I've been in touch with the
> upstream author who made quite a few changes for it to be usable within
> Totem). So "totem http://www.myvideosite.com/foobar" would play if the
> site is supported by quvi.
>
> Cheers
>
I'm trying to package "nomnom", that uses quvi (that I also packaged). 
It's a gui that download or read as stream the videos from websites.

Fabien


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