[gst-devel] Media types database

[Myers Carpenter]

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I'm not a c programmer.  I am a web programmer (php, etc.).  So I've been
trying to think of ways to add to this project.

I've been kicking around the idea of doing a media type database, with
the  idea of listing codecs (mpeg1, sorenson), transport protocals (rtp,
rtsp),  and file formats (ogg, quicktime), along with links to
implementations and  specs, as well as user comments.

The second part to this project would be to having a database of 
implentations of all these.

My overall goal is to get people thinking about converging their
code into fewer but richer projects (or at least make the lower levels of 
thier code more accessable to outside projects).  It's annoying me to no 
end as I poke my nose in all these mailing list and see that basicly 
they're are coming up with the gstreamer concept over and over.  (eg. The
OpenH323 project just today started kicking around the idea of binary 
modules to get around licensing woes.  Libmedia acutally mentions
gstreamer  as something it's trying to emulate.  Ok, why not just work
with us?).

Here is where I could use some input:
  - a better name for the project?  "Media Type DB" doesn't really work, 
but it's the best I've come up with so far.
  - comments on this database structure:

media_types: 
id, name, type (ie codec, transport, filetype), description, patented (is
 it covered under a patent or not)

urls: 
id, url, title, description, media_type_id

comments: 
(slashdot type comment table)

I realize this could get much more complicated, but I'm trying to keep it
simple (mostly so I can bang this out quick).  If you can think of a piece 
of data that would really make the database useful let me know.

My plans are to host it on gnumedia.org (one of my domain names) along
with a linux media news site (I haven't really see a news site targeted to 
Linux Media Professionals, let me know if you've seen one.)

thanks,

myers