Re: Ideas and graph

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

I'd like to add I want to add video support to monkeymedia, so if totem
could use that when gstreamer is ready for it all the global pref stuff
would work automatically.

Cheers

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:48, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 13:18, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 11:18, Steve Baker wrote:
> > > gst-player and video playback have been left out of this summary. I
> > > would like to offer the following:
> > > gst-player:
> > > - further stabilize the nautilus view
> > > - find a practical use for the bonobo control and develop further for
> > > that use
> > > - move libgstplay to gst-plugins cvs and package separately (3 other
> > > players are now based on this lib)
> > > - move gst-player to gnome cvs so it gets translated
> > > - add play-list functionality (the response to some feature requests
> > > will be "use Rhythmbox")
> > > - add audio cd and DVD support
> > 
> > Will gst-player respect the gconf key choosing between cdda and classic
> > cd playback, if we make it? (I think it's fairly important that if we do
> > it, it should work across all apps.)
> > 
> > Another thing, this way we get about 3 apps playing cds:
> > - gnome-cd
> > - gst-player
> > - rhythmbox
> > 
> > 2 apps playing video, dvd, etc:
> > - totem
> > - gst-player
> >
> > So I think we should make each app specialise, and not blindly make all
> > multimedia software around core stuff.
> 
> I disabled CD playback in Totem because Xine can't do CDDA playback.
> In Totem, I'd need gconf keys for:
> 
> - DVD device
> - CD-Rom device (for VCD)
> - "midnight playback" (averages volume on DVDs, so you don't get spikes
> of noise that would wake up the neighbours ;) (only works on ac3
> playback right now).
> 
> I also have:
> - auto_resize (resize the window automatically depending on the size of
> the stream/video)
> - raw DVD device
> - Audio driver (very Xine specific, set to auto and "just works" by
> default)
> 
> > For example rhythmbox for music management, and some gst-player/totem
> > hybrid thing for simpler music playback and movies, and perhaps audio
> > cds (that way I think we'd have to deprecate gnome-cd, though).
> 
> Totem won't do CDs until CDDA is supported by Xine, or it is ported to
> GStreamer, and I probably wouldn't want all the features found in
> gnome-cd anyway.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> /Bastien Nocera
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