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Original commit message from CVS: Folling wtays suggestion, I was going to start using xmlDocDump, to avoid a symlink attack on the temporary registry file. Unfortunately, xmlDocDump doesn't give any indication whether its successful, so I've #ifdefed this out and left the original in place. Since the tmp file is in /etc/gstreamer, this should be okay for the moment, but I shall ask the libxml people to add some way of getting the success value of DocDump so we can use that in future.
This is gnome-streamer, a framework for streaming media in GNOME. The fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple) to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and release the source.