Re: very rough pre-gep tentative new modules list

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:10:22AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 09:24, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Reasonable, though (and I should be corrected if wrong) there are no
> > > i18n or a11y issues with xine, and we already know it's extensively
> > > portable.[1] So while in the general case I agree strongly with all of
> > 
> > The accessibility ones are probably interesting.
> 
> Bill H. and others have been discussing this briefly on the
> gnome-multimedia list:
> 
> http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2002-September/msg00124.html
> 
> IMHO, it would be very nice to have SMIL support, but I really don't
> think we should block able-bodied users from using all of the formats
> that /are/ supported just because none of the libraries available to us
> available libraries support SMIL.

  SMIL is *huge* and complex ... it's not a small task to implement a SMIL
scheduler even if you have a lot of libraries to help doing the low level
work.

Daniel

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