Re: Info on Gnome and multimedia

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 29 Nov 2000 02:52:48 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> 
> > I would like to start several student projects related to multimedia
> > transmission (facilities for videoconferencing and the like). I would
> > like to suggest the stiudents to work within the Gnome
> > framework. I wonder whether there is soemthing like an architecture
> > for multimedia in Gnome, or libraries for multimedia, or any
> > documentation avilable, or whatever (appart from esound, of which I
> > already know).
> 
> It depends on what kind of work you are most interested in.  There is
> a whole universe of things multimedia wise that need to be addressed.
> 
> You might want to talk to vladimir helixcode com as he has been
> researching the various options for GNOME.
> 
> If you are just interested in audio/display libraries, I think that
> the best thing to use are the Lokigames.com produced libraries for
> this task.  
> 
> Ideally, we should write a quick-time like library that would handle
> this kind of things, and that was a bonobo component that can be
> reused.
> 
there was, some time ago, a project for bringing a GNOME Multimedia

Framework (sorry, but I don't remember the URL). Does somebody know what
happened to that?

cheers