For #GNOME app folks: IMHO we need to think about what to do with Totem / Gnome Videos. It has not yet been ported to #gtk4, which is increasingly becoming an issue.
Apart from not fitting nicely UI wise, it prevents us from using the newly introduced #wayland hardware offloading (zero-copy playback) and, crucially, from (properly) supporting HDR content going forward.
I.e. we either need a port - or should consider making an alternative a core app to focus on.
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@rmader As others have already said we've long wanted this from the design side, but so far there hasn't been a successful effort to get a port over the line (or a replacement in shape), and a new design implemented.
In case anyone wants to give it another try, Allan updated the mockups very recently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-mockups/-/blob/master/videos/videos-experiments-aday.png
@tbernard @rmader Interesting! livi (https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi) used the older ones as a baseline. Time for me to catch up.
@agx Interesting - I wonder if we could make a player that works for you as well so you maybe just have to maintain a small fork?
In any case, I guess the gtk4 hardware plane offloading would be interesting for the librem5 as well - and could increase battery life quite a bit, assuming the video hardware decoder produces something compatible with display hardware (which *should* be the case).
@rmader I have looking at GTKs new hw offloading on my list, it currently just keeps slipping. Filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi/-/issues/5 to make that more obvious. (wouldn't only benefit the Librem 5 but also the mnt reform and MobileLinux in general).
