Re: How to progress now ?

* Christian HJ Wiesner <[email protected]> [2004-02-21 02:09:04 +0100]:

<snip>
> After looking at Gstreamer more extensively it seems that most of the 
> devs feel that their plugin API is in fact poweful, but maybe really too 
> complicated for codec developers to learn.
ACK.
I personally dont wannt use gstreamer.
For most applications its too bloated, and for those ones where it's 
good, it can be wrapped around a smaller API.

<snip>
> For this reason, it seems to be a better idea to create an easier API 
> like the one we were discussing here, and to make a general kind of 
> wrapper for gstreamer then ( as well as for many other apps ) to be able 
> to use different codecs. 
ACK. This is what I proposed some weeks ago.

<snip>
> To make D Felker really unhappy, probably enough to make him 
> *LEAVE US ALONE FOREVER*, the best method could 
> probably be to just get this thing here moving ?
Hah! 
We should hit him in the ass by writing a patch for mplayer which 
uses our media-api.

<snip>
> Will anybody have the time to start some basic docs of what was 
> discussed here, plus some example code ? Enrico ?
Hmm, I'm not the right one for documentation. 

But I can offer you space and some utilities for setting up a website.


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