[gst-devel] Re: Gnome Media Library

[Nicholas Francis]

----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Francis <nicholasFrancis at iname.com>
To: <gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [gst-devel] Re: Gnome Media Library


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Erik Walthinsen <omega at cse.ogi.edu>
> To: Lauris Kaplinski <lauris at ariman.ee>
> Cc: Derek Simkowiak <dereks at kd-dev.com>; Mo McKinlay
> <mmckinlay at labs.interopen.org>; <gnome-devel-list at gnome.org>;
> <gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:27 AM
> Subject: [gst-devel] Re: Gnome Media Library
>
>
> > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> >
> > > OpenML probably does not fit well with the style of OpenGL & OpenAL,
> > > as the latter are:
> > > - extremely low-level
> > > - 100% procedural
> > > We need high-level, object-oriented library - probably sitting on top
of
> > > OpenAL.
> >
> > OK, I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest GStreamer as low-level
> > library for GML.  It's been mentioned before in this thread, and in fact
I
> > think it was partially responsible for the thread in the first place
> > (Nicholas and I've been talking about this stuff for a couple days).
> >
> I very much like GStreamer. My only concern is that it appears to have
been
> designed to be a system that is cool, which is not neccessarily the same
as

Whoops - should have gone to gnome-devel.
Nicholas