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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    KDEs' Multimedia needs
From:       Matthias Welwarsky <matze () stud ! fbi ! fh-darmstadt ! de>
Date:       2003-02-22 19:18:24
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Sorry folks, the mail went out accidentially, before it was actually finished, 
so here we go again:

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

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

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

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

regards,
	matze

-- 
Matthias Welwarsky
Fachschaft Informatik FH Darmstadt
Email: matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de

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

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