Re: bonobo-media and Ogg Vorbis

["Ali Abdin" <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliot Lee" <sopwith redhat com>
To: <gnome-components-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: bonobo-media and Ogg Vorbis


> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ali Abdin wrote:
>
> > Does that mean you plan to abandon SMPEG? or a modified SMPEG (without
> > SDL)? Note: there is no sound solution being planned at all from GNOME.
> > Apparently nobody has the time/desire to work on it unfortunately. For
> > the time being, perhaps we could use libao for the output until a
> > solution comes up? (or you could write your own solution for
> > bonobo-media)
>
> Hi,
>
> esound is the GNOME solution for now...
>
> I think we had the libao airgument already - I'm sure it's a nice library,
> but pointless when esound already offers equivalent functionality without
> the extra layer.

Yup, I know. I don't want to rehash the debate.

My concern was only for people that do not have esound installed (i.e. you
can bypass and go directly to OSS). If you would like bonobo-media to assume
that esound is installed then I have no problem with that.

Regards,
Ali