Re: gstreamer support

Scott Robinson wrote:

>I'm actually already working on this. :-)
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>But, as you may have seen earlier, I posted trying to figure out which
>source base to work on. (I'm working on the luon code base, right now)
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>The extra neat thing is gstreamer has a plugin to use XMMS plugins. :-D
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>Scott.
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>* Patrick Guimond translated into ASCII [Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:45:09PM -0500][<[email protected]>]
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>>I see there's a lot of effort put on porting current xmms plugins to the 
>>beep media player.
>>But, maybe there could be a "cleaner way" (on some aspects) and maybe 
>>faster way to do this: using gstreamer a backend.
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>>In gstreamer, we've got all the plugins we need to:
>>-read files
>>-apply effects (and with support of LADSPA plugins coming...)
>>-output the audio
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>>I think this would make the beep media player cleaner because it would 
>>"reinvent the wheel" as all the plugins would be updated with gstreamer 
>>releases.
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>>One could say: we've got *many* more plugins for xmms than gstreamer. 
>>Yes, but if we port them on the beep media player, some will have to 
>>port them on xine, mplayer or any other library or player that people use.
>>If we port them to gstreamer and other projects start using gstreamer, 
>>the work will only have to be done once.
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>>This is my opinion, anyway.
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>>I'll take a look at the work that could be done to use gstreamer as the 
>>main backend... even if exams are coming fast...
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>>--------
>>Patrick Guimond
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The main reason because the old site still exists are the release 
tarballs. I will upload them to SF today and
remove the page at linux-media.net and add a redirect. (The downloads 
directory will stay though for now, since e.g. FBSD Ports depend on it).

As for the source base: Use the CVS at SF.net. I'm aware that a mistake 
happened and CVS history is unavailable
i will fix this (if still possible...).

The reason for the move to SF is that we needed a bug tracking system 
badly, plus we are now 3 main developers now: David Lau (coder_sku), 
Chong Kai Xiong (descender) and me.

Thanks for pointing out problems with the mailing lists, i wasn't aware 
that there is one, i'll check right away.

To the gstreamer backend: This is very cool that you're doing it. I had 
"planned" it (more or less) myself,
but postponed it to undefined since first a lot of other work needs to 
be done on bmp (it's not _really_ usable
at the moment). Thank you very much for your work and time.

Regards
Milosz