Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[Stefan Monnier]

> To my knowledge, mpv is probably the neetiest one to bring in media
> playing capabilities; it has lots of codecs, is written to be embedded,
> is free and would make Emacs be able to play music and video files
> without external players. Adding multimedia capabilities opens up for
> lots of flexibility and creativity; people can maybe do interesting
> stuff with it. I would certainly like Emacs to become a multimedia
> player,

The question is what benefit is there to having it linked in as
a library as opposed to accessing similar functionality via
a sub-process.

> I play my music with Emacs already :-).

This would tend to argue in favor of not having it as a library since
you can already do what you want just fine using a sub-process.


        Stefan