Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:09 +0000, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On 10/30/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > I think whatever is done, there needs to be a way for application "foo"
> > to play file "ding.wav" without worrying about the intricacies of
> > gstreamer. Don't get me wrong, the gstreamer API is great (and really
> > powerful) but somewhat complicated when you just want a "alert" sound
> > from the speakers.
> 
> I think we need to ensure that these kinds of things are simple for
> application developers, but we also don't want to undermine the really
> powerful GStreamer framework by stepping over it.
> 
> To me the solution here is a small API that talks to GStreamer that
> makes these things easier. A very small Phonon equivilent if you like.
> I am not talking about abstracting lots of sound backends away like
> Phonon does, but just providing a bunch of methods to make a ding or
> equivalent message which in turn generates the relevant GStreamer
> pipeline.

Perhaps the answer is to fix up the existing API:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libgnome/libgnome-gnome-sound.html

The API currently depends on libesd, because it does things like server
side caching. Porting it to GStreamer and retaining all functionality
would involve writing a caching interface for GStreamer.

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