From kde-multimedia Wed Aug 06 17:20:09 2003 From: Neil Stevens Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:20:09 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: Proposal for KDE media interface X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=106019042908114 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday August 06, 2003 10:04, Tim Jansen wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:29, Charles Samuels wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 7:26, Morten Hustveit wrote: > > > Since Flash is interactive, I don't think it fits into a framwork > > > even remotely like this. Its functionality is more similar to that > > > of KSVG, and should have (roughly) the same interface. > > > > Flash is exactly like DVD, and we want DVD-support in our framework... > > I don't think so. If you write something that plays DVDs you probably > want to use all capabilities of a DVD (subtitles, multi-angle, selecting > audio streams etc) and also all capabilities of the framework/backend > (de-interlacing and similar filters, an equalizer etc). You won't be > able to wrap this into a simple API, and I don't think that there would > be a sane way to do this without becoming backend-dependent. Actually I > think that complex, interactive formats like DVD VOBs, Flash and > interactive MPEG4 always need specialized code in the player. Well, sure you want specialized UI code, I agree, but why can't you have an extensible API to support this stuff? - -- Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com "I'll believe it when I see it." -- George Walker Bush -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/MTjJf7mnligQOmERAlsuAKCUEJqEr6PdLzGX5UhJKrS+FBpRwQCfaiyF pMLwKYk/Z4LDpiHwzMehBHY= =facj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia