Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Supported audio

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 01:40, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:18, David SPOOF Hemenway wrote:
> > I can't seam to find a list of what formats are supported, just that 
> > you say it has robust format support, and a couple examples with 
> > dependencies to get for them.
> > Do you support .m4a, aka AAC format?  
> 
> Presently if you use the Xine player and the monkey-media metadata
> loader, the answer is yes (at least I think so, I've never tried it
> myself).
> 
> Using GStreamer, the answer is that I'm not aware of a GStreamer plugin
> to either play back AAC or load metadata from it.  However once one is
> written it would be incredibly trivial to get Rhythmbox support for it;
> just edit metadata/rb-metadata-gst.c, and add an entry to
> rb_metadata_type_map.  Hopefully soon with a bit more work in GStreamer,
> that last step won't be necessary, and all you'll need to do is install
> a plugin.
> 
> >  Please let me know, and/or let me know what might be required to 
> > add in AAC support, as I and a couple friends may find some time to do 
> > development over the summer for a few projects.
> 
> My personal opinion is that GStreamer is the way of the future, and so
> if you want to do AAC, you should get a GStreamer plugin written.  That
> said, Xine and monkey-media aren't going away tomorrow or anything, and
> people continue to submit changesets for Xine at least, so you are also
> free to use/improve those.
> 
> Long term though, I really want to get out of having Rhythmbox be in the
> format-specific metadata business entirely; i.e. drop monkey-media or
> have it be a standalone library that other Xine-based players can use.
> No one has yet expressed interest in maintaining monkey-media though.

My plan was also to rid of monkey-media and use xine-lib to load the
metadata. I'd have to unbreak the xine player backend first though (and
knowing what changed would be useful...).

Cheers
 
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