Re: Gnome multimedia plan

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 19:53, iain wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 17:35, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> 
> 
> > It would be really cool if gnome-cd could use MM too when it's finished,
> > so we don't duplicate that code.
> > 
> 
> Are you going to use GStreamer solely for this? If not then you might
> like the code in gnome-cd for the non cdda methods. It currently works
> on Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux, which I'm not sure if GStreamer has a
> decent Solaris output method: ESD doesn't count as decent ;)

Not sure about this one yet: It seems that some newer pcs and macs dont
support non-cdda playback, so we definetley need cdda playback through
gstreamer (which would add goodies like the possibility to crossfade a
cd audio stream with a normal stream from disc, etc).

It would be nice to also support non-cdda playback (have a desktop wide
gconf key for this or something, and having mm choose between the two
impls). But this is a bit of a problem, since right now MM works by
adding streams to a mixer object. This won't work with non-cdda stuff,
since the data goes directly to the soundcard, so with the current MM we
cannot have those two impls in the same interface.

So we might need a separate object for classic cd playback for that..
and have apps check the gconf key. Gah.

> 
> > Another thing I want in MM is a generic interface to the system volume,
> > might be something for gmix.
> 
> Hmm, possibly, can this be done with GStreamer?

Nope, but this is exactly the kind of stuff that'd be good to have in
MM, so we can share the code.

> 
> > > I'd like that too, I remember though that the rhythmbox guys didn't want
> > > to use cddb-slave2 because they already had cddb capability through some
> > > other library.
> > 
> > Well, if possible I think we should use cddb-slave2 .. dunno who told
> > you this but it wasn't me ;)
> > 
> 
> Hadess. 
> 
> > Random thought, if stuff is going to use MM we might want to move
> > cddbslave into MM.
> 
> Hmm, have Monkey Media as a library that media apps are based on and
> gnome-media as the collection of apps that use monkey media? Maybe. But
> can monkey media get API stable by 2.2?

I'm fairly sure we can get the API stable, the playback API hasn't
changed for months.

Cheers
Jorn

> 
> iain
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