Re: [Banshee-List] mplayer backend for Banshee video playback

[Toki Tahmid <oxwivi gmail com>]

My original email's wording was bad/wrong, let me rephrase it: Banshee is reimplementing video playback using gstreamer, ffmpeg, etc, and I suggest that instead of doing that, we use mplayer, as it has not only solidly implemented, it's also packs in additional functions such as complete subtitle support.

As a point of supporting mplayer, it is thoroughly customisable, which will make Banshee more viable as a media player, despite starting out only as a music player. mplayer, I'm sure you're all aware, is one of the best and most solid and efficient video players out there.

2011/4/29 Toki Tahmid <oxwivi gmail com>

@Michal, there are other functions like subtitle support I'd like to see on Banshee.

On 28 April 2011 21:45, Michał Sawicz <michal sawicz net> wrote:

Dnia 2011-04-28, czw o godzinie 21:25 +0400, Toki Tahmid pisze:

> @Samuel,@Alex, it's great that those are used, and so does other video
> players, but what I'm saying is, instead of reimplementing them all
> over again, just let mplayer take care of it all.

@Toki, Banshee uses gstreamer. Gstreamer is a complete multimedia
solution owned by Freedesktop.org, a separate project from Banshee and
developed separately. It can use, and does use, ffmpeg, which mplayer
does, too.

I can't see any advantage of using mplayer over gstreamer in Banshee,
while I can see many disadvantages, the tiniest of which is the
requirement to reimplement the whole playback stack for mplayer.

Maybe try to address this the other way around - what are your issues
with video playback in Banshee?

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
[2] http://freedesktop.org/

Regards
--
Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal sawicz net>

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