Re: GMedia v0.1

[Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant suntlc etnoteam it>]

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Michael Zucchi wrote:
> What about expanding that into a whole application frame-work for
> loading/showing media, say, based on the gtk object structure, for
> providing embedded "media" in /any/ application, not just a general
> purpose media viewer?

As you say later on, if gmedia were CORBAized, one could do that anyway.

> they are rendered).  With a mailcap or 'file' or other system to
> recognise which loader to use.

I think mailcap isn't good enough for most things. We want the ability to
control the multimedia object (rewind/fast-forward, etc...) from one common
control panel. You can't do that if you invoke an external app. We could ask
the various maintainers of popular "helpers" (xanim, mpg123, timidity) to
provide a remote control interface.

Tristan
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Tristan Tarrant                                          ttarrant@etnoteam.it
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