Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] iTunes Music Sharing

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Charles Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 23:12 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > The hooks I've got at the moment are:
> >  
> >  gboolean (*pre_open) (RBPlayerSubtype *subtype, GstElement *playbin, 
> >                        const char *uri, GError **error);
> > 
> > called just before setting the URI property on the playbin and starting
> > playback.
> 
> For daap, at least, I need to fudge the uri from daap:// to http:// so
> the playbin can understand it.  So I think the pre_open (maybe not the
> best name) should be responsible for setting a uri to playbin.  Or,
> pre_open should pass in char ** for a uri_out variable. I dunno.

Why's that?  I thought the daap:// thing was only so you could trigger
some special processing in rb-player, which the subtype would do
instead.

> > It looks like a seek hook may be required for DAAP, but I don't know
> > exactly what that should look like or how it should effect the existing
> > seek code, so I've left it out.
> 
> A pre_seek (or pre_set_time) that runs in rb_player_set_time between
> setting PAUSED & PLAYING on the playbin would be helpful. Its default
> handler should be the regular gst_element_seek with time * GST_SECOND
> that is already in _set_time.

OK, I'll add something like that in.

-jonathan.