From kde-multimedia Mon Sep 06 09:25:42 2004 From: "Ronald S. Bultje" Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:25:42 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: summary of the aKademy meetings Message-Id: <1094462741.2524.34.camel () localhost ! localdomain> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=109446267031891 Hi Scott, Thanks for the summary. Some questions (not specifically for you, but more for discussion): On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 04:20, Scott Wheeler wrote: > *) We'll have a simple, abstract player interface that can handle audio or > video and is not tied to a specific backend. This interface will support > most of the common cases that application developers need. How detailed will the interface be? Will it limit itself to the lowest common denominator? Or will it implement backend-specific bits? Some examples: a mixer interface for audio outputs? Tagging? Network setup? Below, you mention that you would like to have a recommended low-level API (supposedly a backend), will the interface provide access to the objects required to interact with the lower-level API directly (of course all this under if (low_level_api == what_i_expect) { ... })? Or is it either one or the other? > *) At some point there will most likely be a (not particularly strong) > recommendation for a default sound server; however as the abstraction at that > layer will be handled by the backends this doesn't presently have a > significant influence on our development so we're not in much of a hurry to > make such a decision. Will KDE follow freedesktop.org recommendations if those are provided, or will it choose its own? Ronald -- Ronald S. Bultje _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia