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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: gstreamer instead of mpeglib
From:       Nikolas Zimmermann <wildfox () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-01 19:41:25
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On Sunday 01 April 2001 18:25, Martin Vogt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:08:00PM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > Wouldn't using mpg123 and smpeg be much wiser than selling out to the
> > unethical stupid gstreamer/GNU/GLIB/GTK/GNOME æßwiips?
>
> No.
>
> smpeg depends on SDL, where GStreamer depends on GLIB (in the future)
>
> For smpeg we would need another Arts/PlayObject <-> smpeg gateway
> same for mpeg123, whereas there is only one generic
> PlayObject for GStreamer. (But with the benefit that this would
> support much more decoders, like it is in mpeglib now)
>
> Another thing is: where to put it? Assume we put smpeg+SDL/mpeg123
> in kdemultimedia.
>
> Then there are two mp3 decoders in kdemultimedia.
>
> 1. mpeg123           (mp3 decoder for _audio_ playback)
> 2. splay in smpeg    (mp3 decoder for MPEG-I _video_ playback)
>
> (both would need porting to other platforms)
>
> - mpeg123 maybe a simple plugin , whereas smpeg is threaded,like mpeglib.
>
> Any Videoextensions to smpeg would _only_ work with smpeg.
> No divx, no MPEG2/DVD, much more work, should we do it
> for every plugin?
> AviFile (divx player) comes with its own mp3decoder too.
>
> An aRts/Gstreamer PlayObject gateway maybe a better solution than
> writing plugins for mpeg123 and smpeg, but I thing the same
> what Nikolas said in another mail.
> The best thing is to do everything in aRts.
> But this is _much_ work.
better say _very_ much!
:(
i talked with some gstreamer guys today
and they liked your idea very much
But we need a decesion (of stw?) now...
1. focus on the gstreamer-integration
   with the frickled thing
2. focus on the very hard but long-term
   safe aRts-only solution

What do you think ?
or maybe both?
but who really wants to "waste" time on 1
if we know that 2 is the way to go....

Bye
 Bye
  Niko
>
>
> regards,
>
> Martin
>


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Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox@kde.org
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