Re: Ideas and graph

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 00:02, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 17:44, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Windows has 2 apps for MM:
> > - basic cd player
> > - Window Media I do it all Player (with an awful interface for both
> > movies and music)
> 
> I think in 98, at least, it defaults to the (definitely awful) WMP for
> CDs; certainly I tried to find a way to use something else for CDs and
> failed last time I was home. [It's mind-boggling that a CD player can
> use 30+% of your CPU.]
> 
> > MacOS X has a better way to see this:
> > - Quicktime for movie playing (crap interface, no options, apart from
> > the proprietary codecs, QT Basic is even worse than Totem as far as
> > video playing is concerned)
> > - iTunes for audio (nice interface, but non-native widgets)
> 
> <nod>
> 
> > I'd prefer Gnome to go the OSX way. I hope Totem can top gst-player as
> > far video players are concerned ;) (hey, I'm biased)
> 
> Assuming we can make the overhead from using RB to play CDs fairly
> minimal, I think this is /basically/ the right path to go. 

Yeah, I *hope* to get rb fast enough for this...

> 
> One omission, though- note that I have no idea how OS/X handles
> non-'music' audio- I think it's not unreasonable to have a smaller,
> simpler player-app for such things (.wavs, .aus, etc.) The RB interface
> is definitely 'biased' towards tracks and collections of tracks and is
> probably pretty poor for those other things, which we do need to handle
> still.

Exactly. I think it would be really cool to have one lightweight, fast,
video & audio player, expanding to include a video view when it plays
video, and just a simple bar when it's just audio (like gst-player does
now).

Cheers