From kde-multimedia Tue Sep 07 13:52:02 2004 From: "Ronald S. Bultje" Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:52:02 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: summary of the aKademy meetings Message-Id: <1094565122.2510.12.camel () localhost ! localdomain> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=109456505720947 On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 08:28, Marco Lohse wrote: > ok, I have quickly looked at the code. It's basically a 'one-to-one' > binding, right? [..] > So, to summarize, this will be a huge effort - I wonder why people are > willing to invest so much effort into this and not into some sort of > 'meta-architecture', something on-top of other frameworks, something > that adds some more value through abstraction. Charles just explained that ten times, the one-to-one mapping (if there at all) would make it a very powerful API, as powerful as GStreamer is right now. The wrap ('meta-architecture') would be at best as powerful as the common denominator or be unimplemented in at least one backend, both of which are bad for applications (and thus end users). I agree that it might be nice to have a kpart for a simple beep (for in games) and so on, you really don't want games and mail applications to require direct GStreamer code, right? But if KDE is going to recommend a media framwork in addition to this kpart, it should just have the guts to choose one. Ronald -- Ronald S. Bultje _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia