On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:09, Wim Taymans wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:27, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:02, Wim Taymans wrote:
> > > Jorn, you're designing an app.
> > >
> > > Allow me to make this little analogy (with flaws, as with all analogies,
> > > but you'll get the point).
> > >
> > > pretend: GStreamer~=GDK/GTK
> > >
> > > Are you saying that my (one of my mid-term goals) VirtualDub clone
> > > should use that single library of yours? I can give you some of my
> > > requirements then... Are you also saying that my (one of my long-term
> > > goals) NLE library should use that single library of yours too?
> >
> > We don't need a single all-singing, all-dancing wrapper library, but we
> > do need wrappers for something as simple as, say "play a sound". I
> > don't want to have to deal with sinks and pipelines and all that. I
> > just want to play a .wav file or a .ogg file or whatever when a user
> > clicks a button.
> >
> > It would be nice if we had a nice generic video widget so all I had to
> > do would be:
> >
> > GtkWidget *window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> > GtkWidget *video = gnome_video_new ("pants.mpg");
> >
> > gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), video);
> > gtk_widget_show_all (window);
> >
> > gnome_video_play (GNOME_VIDEO (video));
> >
> > gtk_main ();
>
> as taken from main.c of the gst-player:
>
> GstMediaPlay *mplay;
> GtkWidget *window;
>
> gst_init (&argc, &argv);
> gnome_init (PACKAGE, VERSION, argc, argv);
>
> window = gnome_app_new ("gst-player", "GStreamer Player");
>
> mplay = gst_media_play_new ();
> gnome_app_set_contents (GNOME_APP (window), GTK_WIDGET(mplay));
>
> gst_media_play_set_location (mplay, "pants.mpg");
>
> gtk_widget_show_all (window);
>
> gst_media_play_set_state (mplay, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
>
> gtk_main ();
>
> Granted, this thing has a seekbar and play/pause/stop buttons too in the
> widget (that can be disabled). GstMediaPlay is build on top of GstPlay,
> which is just a GObject, so it requires a GtkPlug to embed the window
> (but allows for a KDE/Qt based player).
It's just missing a way to always show the video (with a logo when no
files are loaded) and fancy goom vis when playing music :)
Disclaimer: I didn't look very closely at the API, there are probably
other things missing in there for use in Totem.
Cheers
--
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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