Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] User-specific tmp directory and auto-removal of swf files

[Rob Savoye]

Takashi Iwai wrote:


  Btw, there is already support for a ~/.gnashrc file, you'd just have
to add the support for the additional config setting, since it has to
get parsed out of the file.

>>   I haven't seen any pages with multiples of the same name, but I guess
>> it's possible. We could use mkstemp() to make them all unique, but when
>> the change to make the plugin stream the movie while downloading is
>> done, movies won't be downloaded at all anymore except optionally.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand this downside well.  Could you elaborate?

  Their are changes being made so the Gnash standalone player can read a
movie from stdin via pipes. This will let the plugin send the data in
chunks to the player while the browser is reading the stream. The goal
here is it makes movies start playing while the rest of the movie is
still loading. At that point the need for the downloaded movie will be
gone. The only reason the plugin downloads a movie to /tmp is because
Gnash was limited to only working with disk files. This was the easiest
way to make the plugin work at that time.

        - rob -