Re: designing a wrapper lib

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

A thing i forgot in the list is system volume control

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 20:43, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Assuming everyone agrees we need to use one wrapper library for all
> gnome core apps, I want to start up a brainstorming session on what we
> want to have in the lib (let's just call it gmedialib for now, to avoid
> any references to either mm or gstplay). When we have a list of things
> we need we all agree on, we should start to design an API, implement it,
> and push it as new standard lib.
> 
> Please, if you disagree we need to use one single library, reply and
> discuss why you think we need multiple. (We're talking about the core
> desktop lib here, we definetely need an embedding lib (gstplay?) as
> well, but that's not what gnome-multimedia is about, IMHO).
> 
> To start with, here are a few things I could think of. If you think they
> dont belong here, just start a discussion.
> 
> - simple audio/video playback
> - gapless transition/crossfading (Not sure about this one, at least RB
> will need it, but i can imagine other apps needing it. It's just a very
> nice feature that would ideally Just Work on any mediaplayer.)
> - relative volume
> - equalizer backend, perhaps a widget as well?
> - visualization
> - good audio cd support (with things like eject and cd availability
> signals as well)
> - metadata reading and writing
> - internet radio support
> 
> Cheers
> Jorn
> 
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