Re: very rough pre-gep tentative new modules list

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 09:24, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Reasonable, though (and I should be corrected if wrong) there are no
> > i18n or a11y issues with xine, and we already know it's extensively
> > portable.[1] So while in the general case I agree strongly with all of
> 
> The accessibility ones are probably interesting.

Bill H. and others have been discussing this briefly on the
gnome-multimedia list:

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2002-September/msg00124.html

IMHO, it would be very nice to have SMIL support, but I really don't
think we should block able-bodied users from using all of the formats
that /are/ supported just because none of the libraries available to us
available libraries support SMIL.

>  There are also some non subtle international considerations. Large
>  chunks of xine code are possibly not US shippable, but the rest of the
>  world is fine.

This is completely different from i18n so I didn't address it earlier :)
That said... we face this issue with both xine and gstreamer. I have no
idea how to resolve it, to be frank. [Well, I have some personal,
pie-in-the-sky ideas, but they are not reasonable :) Note also that it's
not just not US shippable; most likely much of it will not be shippable
in much of Europe soon as well, as a result of the pending
implementations of the EU Copyright Directive, which prohibits
circumvention devices.

Luis