From kde-devel  Mon Dec 30 22:54:00 2002
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:54:00 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: multimedia infrastructure
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Florin Andrei wrote:

> 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?

Yes, this appears to be the KDE way of doing other things.

So, we would have a library, a stand alone player, and a Kpart for Konqueror.

Sounds good to me.

Did you think that KDE should just use Xine (directly) or that we should make our own library?

--
JRT


 
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