From kde-multimedia Sun Feb 23 00:52:05 2003 From: Neil Stevens Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:52:05 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: KDEs' Multimedia needs X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=104596166106178 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday February 22, 2003 11:18, Matthias Welwarsky wrote: > 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. We already have KVideoWidget, that embeds a window provided from the server process. Too late. > 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. Well, the original idea of aRts really doesn't matter anymore, does it? What matters are two things: How we're already using aRts, and the new things people need from aRts. > 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. Yes, and that framework is being used a lot already. So before replacing it, we need to make every reasonable effort to meet people's needs with the existing one. - -- Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com "Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WBs1f7mnligQOmERAs1CAJ93d0uwExhoTCSvHY7TQ2TqCCvU2gCgl4md VrzrdcXs9lqauU/lKrpzDeo= =QIcq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia