[gst-devel] Google Summer of Code

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mi, 2008-04-02 at 18:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:42 +0200, Andoni Morales Alastruey wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'd like to participate on the GSOC developing a multilingual
> > embeddable multimedia player to give GTK multimedia application's
> > developpers an easy solution on multimedia player support.
> > 
> > The idea is to create a GtkWidget with an embedded gstreamer multimedia
> > player, based on the code of Totem, with bindings for the more commons
> > used languages to avoid programmers leading with the gstreamer code.
> > When requiring the use of a multimedia player on an program, the
> > developer must deal with the gstreamer libraries, this way he will just
> > have to deal with the GtkWidget embedding the player(e.g. the IGSTPlayer
> > interface).
> 
> I've already mentioned to Sebastian that this would be a bad idea. The
> current widget never got API review, the APIs are very ad-hoc and some
> still based on what xine-lib can do, rather than what a GTK+-ish API
> should do.

Right, and you convinced me :)

What we need is a widget that is not based on totem's ;) We need
something with a sane and clean API... which still has to be defined.

If you want to work on that, great, we really need something like
that :) But I don't think one can design a good API for that without
having much experience with GStreamer and GTK.
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