Re: Re: Arpi, if you are still reading the mcf-mplayer

Hi,

> That's why OBOS could have a lot of success when it's working ;)
> 
> (the Media OS)

anyway beos is/was very c++/object oriented, so i doubt we could find an
acceptable common interface

> 
> 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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