Re: Some questions and ideas

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Quoting David Joaquim <david joaquim bluewin ch>:
> Hi,
>
> I've read the roadmap and I'm asking me some questions and ideas.
>
> About the encoding profiles, will they only be for audio, or are they
> for both audio and video settings ? I've only seen audio profiles yet,
> but it seems to be usefull to make them more generic and accept multiple
> medias. All gnome applications can therefore share the same component
> and profiles for all media kind.

Thats the plan. I am trying to find a student who likes to do this as  
part of Soc
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/EncodingProfiles

Stefan

> I'm also thinking about a better support for speaker configuration.
> It will be great if you have a 5.1 soundcard to be able to choose
> different profiles. For example, one profile using only 2 channels
> (headphones/2.0 speaker system), and one using all the channels
> (surround systems). Applications can get the number of speakers from the
> currently used profile and then use an optimal configuration (DVD playback).
>
> Also some improvements to configure volume on multiple speakers.
> * 2-dimensional balance configuration on 5.1 systems.
> * Master volume modification reported on all speakers (last time I
> tried, it only increased volume on front speakers)
>
> Cheers,
>   David
>
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