Re: GMedia v0.1

[Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249 cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Tristan Tarrant wrote:

> I've just put gmedia up on my web site.
> 
> gmedia wants to be a general purpose media player for Gnome (audio, video).
> It is currently just a frontend to the xmp module player, but I plan to add
> support for mp3, wav and animations soon.
> 
> Go and have a look at http://space.tin.it/computer/ttarrant/
> 
> and tell me what you think.

Haven't looked at the app yet, but you might be re-inventing the wheel.
Xanim [1] is I believe the most comprehensive general-purpose media player
for X11, playing just about every sound/image/video format known to man
(though it doesn't do specialised formats like mods and mids). Mark
Podlipec, the guy who built it/maintains it, is a pretty open guy, he'll
probably co-operate.

What WOULD be nice in GNOME is a front end for everyone's (user-defineable)
favourite player that runs a program based on a file's MIME type. Or
something similar. Could be built into gtk+, perhaps.

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