Re: libFMedia

Daniel Fischer <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:47:39 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbeos.mediakit
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:17:40PM +0200, Axel DÃ¶rfler  wrote:

> > that i am currently investigating the possibilities to create a 
> > similar (yet much
> > simpler) structure on a portable base, just to be independent of any 
> > proprietary OS
> > manufacturer selling out.
> 
> That's basically what we are doing :-)

hm. i disagree. what you guys are doing is to recreate the BeOS MediaKit, yes? true, if the OBOS project is successfull (which i sincerely expect and hope :), we will be independent from proprietarism. but it is a huge difference to what i am investigating, namely, getting something similar to the MediaKit on a _portable_ basis. that is, the basics should run on (O)BeOS, Linux, BSD, OSX and even (if someone takes some efforts, certainly not me :) Windoze.

any media_node developed for the MediaKit will still only run on OBOS. the MediaKit relies on BeOS infrastructure. that is its main strength, and its main weakness.

regards,
-dan