Re: gstreamer support

Milosz Derezynski wrote:

> 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...
>>
>> --------
>> Patrick Guimond
>>
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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
>
>
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Hey Scott,

That mail was meant to be sent to you, not Patrick. Sorry for the confusion!
Just would like to know how the gStreamer backend is progressing.

Regards
Milosz