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>The player will be written in Python with the python-gst, pywebkitgtk, and python-gtk

Why ? It would much more useful to me (and much less work for the developer) if you could write a VLC plugin.

VLC has Python bindings. You could use the Python code and make a VLC plugin out of it.

Not that everyone uses VLC - I thought the intention was something a little more flexible.

true - but I would rather be forced to use something that has been downloaded 1 billion times[1], than something that is a custom player just for this codec and is relatively untested (with all due respect)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970611

But the people who don't use VLC are able and willing to use python-gst, pywebkitgtk, and python-gtk?

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