Re: Arpi, if you are still reading the mcf-mplayer list ... check this out :

That's why OBOS could have a lot of success when it's working ;)

(the Media OS)

Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>As the guys are looking for a kind of Dshow equivalent for OBOS we thought
>>we let you know there is maybe the chance to create some 'common' API or so
>>.... is this ever interesting for Linux ?
> 
> 
> not really
> there are no standards (only some dead and never-used ones) for linux, 99%
> of linux apps uses/emulates wide-spreaded formats of win/macos.
> 
> about the players - the most important things in a player are demxuers and
> codecs. currently every player has its own interface for both, and there
> was not any sucecss in getting some common one.
> there are/were projects with such goal, like OMS or gstreamer, but they are
> actually wrappers around other player's interfaces. the most popular/usable
> players, like mplayer, xine, avifile has their own interface.
> creating a common one is near to impossible, due to architectural/design
> differences (like mplayer is singlethreaded while others aren't, direct
> rendering, colorspace management, c vs c++ etc)
> 
> and, actually these interfaces are mostly wrappers around other,
> codec-dependent extra interfaces, including dshow/vfw api, realvideo api,
> libavcodec's api, xanim api etc...
> 
> the fact is that no one is interested in developing common interface, as it
> will surely differ from his current interface and will mean feature/speed
> loss or introducing high complexity.
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
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