Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus with ogg

[Remi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali COM>]

To address that kind of issues, could it be possible for nautilus to use 
an abstraction layer between the music view and the playing system (esd 
or even a raw driver as OSS or ALSA) ? Such an implementation already 
exists in GPL world (libao).
And for the previews, the mime types could be a solution, couldn't it ?


Marius Stepien wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:21:26 -0500 (CDT)
> Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu> wrote:
>
> > Can we expect that all GNOME users use esd?  If so, we could just use
> "-d
>
> > esd" in the call in Nautilus.  If we think some people may decide to
> turn
>
> > off esd, we could have a preferences dialog which either allows people
> to
>
> > select to not use esd or else which gives users a short list of device
> > options to choose from for passing to ogg123.  Using esd should be the
> > default behavior if it is not reconfigured since this is the GNOME sound
> > server. Ideally in the future all of this will be done by communicating
> > with the control-center, but for now I guess it makes sense to put it in
> > Nautilus' preferences.  Or is there a simple way to poll the
> > control-center to find out if esd is being used?
>
> Weren´t there plans for Gnome 2.0 to exchange the esd with another sound
> deamon ? I believe there were discussions to implement ARTS or to write a
> new sound daemon to replace the old ESD system....
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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