Re: Gstreamer

[Raffael Herzog]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:37:40 -0500, Jason Clouse <jhclouse@charter.net> 
wrote:

> On 2004-01-19 17:31:29 -0500 Robert Warning <cleeker@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Would anyone be interested in objc/gnustep bindings to gstreamer?
>
> Sure, why not?  Hasn't somebody already started on something like this?  
> I thought I had seen something about this before.

Yep, me! I've got it somewhat working, however, since it was my first 
piece of ObjC and therefore quite chaotic (and full of dead-locks), I 
recently decided to start over with it... :)

MoviePlayer.app is a movie player for GNUstep. It is split in three 
subprojects: MoviePlayer.app (the player itself), libMovieView (a library 
for easily accessing the movie playing functionallity from other programs) 
and XineX11.engine (a bundle containing a movie playing engine based on 
libxine and X11).

My new plans are very similiar. I called it "GNUstepMedia" for now.

- GPlayer.app: What MoviePlayer.app was before.
- GMCore: What libMovieView was before, i.e. a media playing 
library/framework.
- GMBack: The backend protocols, maybe some utilities for implementing 
backends. Backend implementations are realised as bundles.
- GMBXineX11: The libxine and X11 based backend.
- GMUtils: Some utilities for creating players, contains mainly controls 
and maybe a palette for them - not specified yet.
- GMPortability: Implementations of NSMovie and NSMovieView based on 
GMCore.

My plan was starting it all from scratch (except the use of libxine later 
probably also MPlayer G2), but using an already existing framework is of 
course also an option... I'll take a look at GStreamer (didn't know that 
it existed).

cu,
   Raffi

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