RE: Gnome Media Library

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Poletti, Don wrote:

> preRollMovie()   // Why this was need is beyond me, bad apple programming I
> suspect

Pre-roll exists to allow things like tape players and audio CDs to get
ready to go just before playback starts - some devices have a non-trivial
amount of preparation to do before they can start playing back the media.

-- Elliot
"Moron of the week" for four years running