Re: gstreamer support

Patrick Guimond wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> This is my opinion, anyway.
>
> 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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Hi Patrick,

Just wanted to ask about the status of the gStreamer backend. I guess 
that it's probably
in early stages yet, but we discussed a few things and we want to get 
rid of the propreitary
plugins as soon as it will go.

Our reasoning is same as yours, if someone wants to develop a plugin for 
bmp, he can
as well make it a gstreamer plugin, which will be available not only to 
bmp then.

Do you need CVS write access?

Regards
Milosz