Re: Info on Gnome and multimedia

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo gnome-db org) wrote at 17:36 on 29/11/00:
> 
> On 29 Nov 2000 02:52:48 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > I would like to start several student projects related to multimedia
> > > transmission (facilities for videoconferencing and the like). I would
> > > like to suggest the stiudents to work within the Gnome
> > > framework. I wonder whether there is soemthing like an architecture
> > > for multimedia in Gnome, or libraries for multimedia, or any
> > > documentation avilable, or whatever (appart from esound, of which I
> > > already know).
> > 
> > It depends on what kind of work you are most interested in.  There is
> > a whole universe of things multimedia wise that need to be addressed.
> > 
> > You might want to talk to vladimir helixcode com as he has been
> > researching the various options for GNOME.
> > 
> > If you are just interested in audio/display libraries, I think that
> > the best thing to use are the Lokigames.com produced libraries for
> > this task.  
> > 
> > Ideally, we should write a quick-time like library that would handle
> > this kind of things, and that was a bonobo component that can be
> > reused.
> > 
> there was, some time ago, a project for bringing a GNOME Multimedia
> 
> Framework (sorry, but I don't remember the URL). Does somebody know what
> happened to that?

Its in GNOME CVS as the module 'gmf'

It is being (occasionaly) hacked on by gzr eazel com I think.

Regards,
Ali