Re: RFC: GNOME 2.0 Multimedia strategy

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jim Gettys wrote:

> That being said, gstreamer, from what I can gather, though I haven't studied
> it carefully, looks like a reasonable library to help the apps do what
> they need and is a strong candidate for Gnome's need for 2).  But I don't
> think it, itself should have to deal with the hardware abstraction and
> network issues on top of everything else.  The problems are enough different
> that trying to mix both into one is likely to fail, and won't withstand
> the test of time; I can guarantee we'll learn lots more about signal
> processing over the next decade.

When I had a discussion with Christian and Erik (gstreamer author) they
basically agreed that GStreamer was addressing the problem of multimedia
framework and not sound I/O.

-- Elliot
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
	(WC Fields)