On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:51, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > Stupid question: Why can't you use all the wonderful code in MPlayer? > Or better yet why can't all MPlayer, XINE, gstreamer, mp1e, etc, etc.. > people get together to design a central multimedia core and have the > individual applications only be frontends to the central library. (I can > think of many reasons, but I want to know what the real reasons are). that's exactly what gstreamer's core is! But I'm not expecting the mplayer/cinelerra/xine developpers to stop developping. But they need to convert their whole application over from their own backend to our backend, and that takes long. Probably, they don't want to. The gstreamer core is moe than flexible enough for whatever needs. > There is also a very fine video editor in hiding known as Broadcast 2000, > and Cinelerra. Someone should force the guys behind it to stop playing > games and come out of hiding. Heroine Virtual/Warrior is NOT a > cooperation. "We're not a guy in dorm room trying to act like a > corporation." Has there ever been cooperation? Why did we have OMS vs. Xine? Why do we have about ten million multimedia players nowadays, each supporting mostly one format? Why does cinelerra need its own GUI toolkit? Why are there at least 20 v4l-recording apps, most functioning only half or not at all - and why are they all commandline-based? If I knew the answer to all these questions... Most people just don't cooperate, for any unknown reason. Let it be, make sure at least the people who *are* interested in cooperation get together and combine efforts. But it's opensource, we can't force everyone. Gstreamer has a group of people working on a recorder, player, editor etc, each of these people is willing to give up the one minute of fame for his 1-man-project for a greater good - getting *real* good applications for linux to make linux a true multimedia platform. Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.4.18-XFS and OpenBSD 3.0 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^
