Calling a video player for video/media

[lanodan]

Currently tootle calls a web browser for playing a video, which is very overkill.
I don’t know if GTK got a video widget (as Qt or KDE does), but it would be nice if it could at least be configurable to call a video player instead.

[alcinnz]

I don't think it's available in Juno yet, but there's a video widget coming in GTK4.

But I think until then it'd be appropriate to just play silent videos in a loop using GStreamer.

[lanodan]

But I think until then it'd be appropriate to just play silent videos in a loop using GStreamer.

Yes, but if possible without autoplay, for example with click-to-play / click-to-pause (accessibility but also bandwidth/memory usage).

[alcinnz]

@lanodan It's certainly possible, and desirable. But it's quite clearly out-of-scope for GStreamer, so Tootle would have to implement it itself.

On the otherhand it's such a simple interaction it should be trivial to implement.