From kde-multimedia  Sat Feb 22 19:18:24 2003
From: Matthias Welwarsky <matze () stud ! fbi ! fh-darmstadt ! de>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:18:24 +0000
To: kde-multimedia
Subject: KDEs' Multimedia needs
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Sorry folks, the mail went out accidentially, before it was actually finish=
ed,=20
so here we go again:

> A codec layer. We definitely need an easy to access possibility to plug i=
n=20
> codecs for alls those funky sound and video formats. I'm all against=20
> burdening this tedious stuff onto application programmers.

We haven't discussed video yet, but we need this too, of course. I don't th=
ink=20
we need a "video server" as a standalone process, we already have X, but we=
=20
need an easy way to blit images into the screen, ideally a KVideoWidget (i.=
e.=20
something embeddable), using every form of hardware acceleration that's=20
offered to us.

Please, think about how Arts in KDE is different from the original idea:=20
People started to mis-use arts for stuff it was never meant for. For exampl=
e,=20
writing playobjects that are actually mp3 or ogg decoders. And then there w=
as=20
streaming. Arts is clearly a kind of victim of one of the open source=20
communities brightest habits: excessive reuse. People started to extend it=
=20
not because it was the best choice for the given task, but just because it=
=20
was there.

So whatever comes out of this reiterating discussions, keep in mind that yo=
u=20
not only have to replace Arts as a soundserver, but also Arts as the presen=
t=20
KDE Multimedia framework. And this involves Codecs and Video, too.

regards,
	matze

=2D-=20
Matthias Welwarsky
=46achschaft Informatik FH Darmstadt
Email: matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de

"all software sucks equally, but some software is more equal"

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