Re: Ideas and graph

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:48, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 13:18, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 11:18, Steve Baker wrote:
> > > gst-player and video playback have been left out of this summary. I
> > > would like to offer the following:
> > > gst-player:
> > > - further stabilize the nautilus view
> > > - find a practical use for the bonobo control and develop further for
> > > that use
> > > - move libgstplay to gst-plugins cvs and package separately (3 other
> > > players are now based on this lib)
> > > - move gst-player to gnome cvs so it gets translated
> > > - add play-list functionality (the response to some feature requests
> > > will be "use Rhythmbox")
> > > - add audio cd and DVD support
> > 
> > Will gst-player respect the gconf key choosing between cdda and classic
> > cd playback, if we make it? (I think it's fairly important that if we do
> > it, it should work across all apps.)
> > 
> > Another thing, this way we get about 3 apps playing cds:
> > - gnome-cd
> > - gst-player
> > - rhythmbox
> > 
> > 2 apps playing video, dvd, etc:
> > - totem
> > - gst-player
> >
> > So I think we should make each app specialise, and not blindly make all
> > multimedia software around core stuff.
> 
> I disabled CD playback in Totem because Xine can't do CDDA playback.
> In Totem, I'd need gconf keys for:
> 
> - DVD device
> - CD-Rom device (for VCD)

OK, these should probably be global, yes.

> - "midnight playback" (averages volume on DVDs, so you don't get spikes
> of noise that would wake up the neighbours ;) (only works on ac3
> playback right now).

Well, that should not be a global setting I think, since it's something
you change regularly. Interesting though, adding it to the list of stuff
I'd like to have in mm :)

> 
> I also have:
> - auto_resize (resize the window automatically depending on the size of
> the stream/video)

That is per-app, IMHO.

> - raw DVD device

Hm? whats this? I dont have a DVD drive .. so I'm a bit clueless here ;)

> - Audio driver (very Xine specific, set to auto and "just works" by
> default)

Yeah, well. We have the gstreamer default audiosink setting .. since
totem is the only app using xine (and hopefully not for long) this
should stay local as well, imho.

> 
> > For example rhythmbox for music management, and some gst-player/totem
> > hybrid thing for simpler music playback and movies, and perhaps audio
> > cds (that way I think we'd have to deprecate gnome-cd, though).
> 
> Totem won't do CDs until CDDA is supported by Xine, or it is ported to
> GStreamer, and I probably wouldn't want all the features found in
> gnome-cd anyway.

Well, I hope you agree we shouldn't have 4 different cd players ;)

At least I think we should not include *both* gst-player and totem as
"core players".

Cheers

> 
> Cheers
> 
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> /Bastien Nocera
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