On Sat, 28 May 2005 03:56:41 -0700
Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Well, the usual concerns:
* security
That's a big question. Has to be asked to wikimedia sysadmins. To my
opinion, it is a political discussion.
* performance
kelson@camber:/tmp$ ls -la test.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kelson kelson 2561895 2005-05-28 17:36 test.mpg
kelson@camber:/tmp$ totem-video-thumbnailer test.mpg test.jpg
kelson@camber:/tmp$ ls -la test.mpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 kelson kelson 2561895 2005-05-28 17:36 test.mpg
kelson@camber:/tmp$ time totem-video-thumbnailer test.mpg test.jpg
real 0m0.915s
user 0m0.782s
sys 0m0.069s
kelson@camber:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2400.478
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips : 4751.36
* compatibility
What to you mean exactly ? Gstreamer is the official multimedia
framework for gnome, and should be in the future the one choosed by
KDE.
* compartmentalizability
Used by gnome, should be ok... (please don't troll)
But that's just my opinion.
It works fine with my videos.
It'd be great to be able to run all this image
stuff and other external
bits in an isolated chroot environment, preferably not on the main web
servers. Totem is a dependency hog, pulling in GNOME, GStreamer etc.
Why not, should be more secure. But that has to be a software
architect decision.
I propose to code the little patch to provide this feature. After
that, A discussion might be started about how to make the feature more
secure, faster, etc.
Emmanuel
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