Re: API freeze release ... status so far.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Sander Vesik wrote:

> On 3 Aug 2001, Seth Nickell wrote:
>
> > > FWIW my personal view is that the whole sound thing in libgnome is
> > > pointless, because no one turns sounds on, because we don't have any
> > > good sounds. And sounds are annoying even if you have good ones, most
> > > people don't them on in Windows either I don't think.
> > Having event sounds in libgnome is sort of a "whatever" issue compared
> > to picking and running with a media and/or sound API. aRTs is OK, but it
> > would seem prudent to eventually add a full media API to the mix (and I
> > presume gstreamer can use arts). "Playing movies" is currently one of
> > the surprisingly few things a GNOME desktop is completely incompetent at
> > that has become a basic part of commercial desktops.
>
> Well, 'what is our multimedia strategy' is the wrong kind of discussion to
> have 3 days after API freeze. 
Yep, GStreamer would be more ready for 2.2 I reckon.

> > If we plan to release a GStreamer-based media player with GNOME as an
> > application for 2.0, it seems reasonable to include it in the official
> > libraries.
>
> This doesn't follow. Gstreamer is really a media middleware, and not
> including libgstreamer.so (or whatever it is called) in the libaries does
> not really afftect the ability to ship it as either core program or a
> fifth toe program. It has an audio output plugin for artsd.
>
> OTOH - gstreamer is a large API, some of which is low level (and x86
> specific), it has it's own APIs (and code) for configuration/propeties and
> XML. Aka a mess.

Please, don't give me the "x86 specific" here. I'm using GStreamer on a 
PowerMac since last November, fixing the problems that would occur, or 
getting them fixed.

What I give you there is the right to dub GStreamer as Linux specific, 
as many of the plugins only work on Linux, and some of them only on 
Linux/x86. But many people are interested in getting GStreamer to work 
on other platforms.

Cheers