Re: Re: Unsupported codecs in linux.

>> I'm not sure if this counts as a codec, a demuxer, or whatever, but 
>> the most popular graphics format for karaoke isn't supported in any 
>> Linux app so far (the format used in CD+G discs and MP3+G files).
>>
>> I collected some information about that format(s) in RFE 708006 on 
>> xine's sf.net pages:
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=708006&group_id=9655&atid=359655 
> 
> 
> I've written an MP3+G player for Linux using Python. It's not 100% 
> polished yet, but it works with 95% of the MP3+Gs I've tried. I'm 
> planning to stick it up somewhere like Sourceforge but haven't got round 
> to it yet.

Hey, nice!
I'd love to try it as soon as it goes public in some way :)

> I built this as a standalone application, but a codec approach is a nice 
> idea. It uses the pygame library (for MP3 playback and SDL display) so 
> it would need to be completely rewritten in C without those 
> dependencies. I'd be interested in doing that, however, if people think 
> this is a good idea. I don't know anything about the architecture of 
> Xine and its codecs, so I don't know if a codec is appropriate for this 
> kind of thing.

I'm not sure either as I don't know anything more than I have posted in 
the RFE listed above, I'm a regular user of xine but I've not even seen 
the code (as I don't know a lot of C/C++ anyway).
But I guess you'll get xine people to give you (or point you to) an 
explanation of the hooks you can use. I guess the MP3 playback and the 
display can be done by xine somehow...

Robert Kaiser


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