Re: GNOME Media Player draft

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Gene Ragan wrote:

> I am not trying to be critical to you at all.  Instead I am trying to make a
> call to action to everyone that cares about media support in Gnome.  It is
> fun to define high level interfaces, but someone needs to do the heavy
> lifting to actually define the infrastructure that these high level
> interfaces use.  Going the route we are going now, we will have a media
> player interface that is a hodge podge of processes and incompatible
> libraries underneath.

The basic idea behind my proposal is to give low-level media handler
program developers the possibility to do just that: develop low-level
media handler programs, and then be able to instantly integrate it
with user interfaces and other media handlers with 20-30 lines of code.

In fact, I'd love someone to start glueing SMPEG, XAnim, xmms's backend
(actually I don't know if xmms has its backend separated, someone should
create a libxmms and make xmms use that), and other media player systems
to Bonobo:Media, since that would mean the user could select the user
interface independently of the media type: right now, you have one GUI for
XAnim (actually, several UIs), another one for SMPEG (gtv), another one
for mp3/wav/vorbis (xmms), and so on. This is a big duplication of code,
and a dead-end in extensibility.

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