On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 10:15, Trent Piepho wrote: > That's exactly the problem, "They need to convert their whole application > over ... to our backend." They probably think you should convert all your > plugins over to their backend. Obviously cooperation is impossible when you > have diametrically opposed positions like this. They don't *have* a pluggable backend, if they have a backend *at all*. mplayer doesn't have a pluggable backend and most of the one-million mediaplayers only support one format and thus don't have a backend at all. Xine is coming closest but their backend is limited to playing. For a real multimedia backend, you need much more than these limited backends, that's what gstreamer is doing. Remember, gstreamer doesn't use a backend, gstreamer *is* the backend. Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.4.18-XFS and OpenBSD 3.0 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^
