[Gnash-dev] Ubuntu Jaunty patches for gnash add dynamic codec download/install

[John Gilmore]

I've been looking at the patches in the gnash sources for Ubuntu Jaunty,
and they include patches to server/asobj/NetStreamGst.cpp that allow
dynamic loading of codecs on demand, and retry the opening of gstreamer
output pipes after such a dynamic loading attempt.

If this code works in generic gstreamer (or otherwise doesn't break
portability to generic gstreamer), shouldn't we adopt it upstream into
gnash itself (assuming the authors are willing to assign it to FSF)?

The patches are here:

  
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnash/gnash_0.8.5-0ubuntu1.diff.gz

        John