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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: multimedia infrastructure
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-12-30 5:36:52
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On Monday 30 December 2002 03:50, Florin Andrei wrote:
Do you know kmplayer ?
http://apps.kde.com/na/2/counter/vid/8496/dld0/kmplayer-0.5.tar.bz2
> (i've sent a similar message recently to a different mailing list, so if
> you're subscribed to that one too, don't be surprised to see it again)
>
> I've seen the recent discussion on this mailing list about the
> multimedia issues. IMO, the real issue is not using one player or
> another, the issue is to have an infrastructure that makes sense.
>
> I used pretty much every multimedia player avaiable on Unices, and i
> also do a lot of work with all kind of free media tools (transcode,
> avidemux, etc.). The differences between different players, in terms of
> supported file formats and features _from_the_user's_p.o.v_ are minimal,
> or small enough to be safely ignored. What is important, though, is
> something that makes sense from the developer's p.o.v.
>
> That's why i think, at this moment, the thing that makes sense is to
> have a multimedia library backend, with an API that can be called from
> pretty much any application or core component, to offer "multimedia
> player" services.
> For example, if you have libpng on your system, any application can do
> stuff with PNG files. How about having such a library that does things
> like "play this AVI file for me", or something like that?...
>
> Have a look at this site:
>
> http://xinehq.de/
>
> Usually, xine is known as a "multimedia player" but that's misleading.
> In actual fact, xine is a library. Its core is xine-lib, with perhaps
> half a dozen different interfaces built on top of it, if not more
> (including xine-ui, the "official" GUI).
>
> Just imagine you have that installed on your system, and link different
> applications to it: all of a sudden, Konqueror can play DivX files
> "natively" (well, through xine-lib, of course); or any other application
> you choose.
> The very notion of "multimedia player" gets diluted somewhat into the
> whole collection of applications for which multimedia capabilities make
> sense. Of course, a multimedia GUI should be provided, for user's
> convenience, but the capabilities could be implemented everywhere.
>
> What do you think?

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