[gst-devel] FLAMES: Fwd: Re: GStreamer

[Andrew Mitchell]

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Subject: Re: GStreamer
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:59:28 -0800
From: Charles Samuels <charles at kde.org>
To: kde-multimedia at max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de


I'm fairly certain that the GNU/Gnome people are pure evil.  Now not only are
they FUDing KDE to hell, but they also pretend to go around and help aRts "in
the hope that gnome will use it too", but then they go off the GStreamer,
which can't be nearly of the quality of aRts.

-Charles

On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:52 am, Neil Stevens wrote:
> http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/979174768/
>
> --
>
> GStreamer "Slipstream" 0.1.0 is a streaming-media framework which allows
> developers to construct arbitrary graph of filters to process media in
> just about any way you can think of. A long list of cool features and a
> huge (and growing) selection of plugins makes it able to play anything
> from mp3 files to DVD and DiVX ;-) movies, out of the box.

[snip]
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Subject: Re: GStreamer
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:02:54 -0800
From: Neil Stevens <multivac at fcmail.com>
To: kde-multimedia at max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de


On Thursday 11 January 2001 03:59 pm, Charles Samuels wrote:
> I'm fairly certain that the GNU/Gnome people are pure evil.  Now not
> only are they FUDing KDE to hell, but they also pretend to go around and
> help aRts "in the hope that gnome will use it too", but then they go off
> the GStreamer, which can't be nearly of the quality of aRts.

I wonder, though, if GStreamer is part of a greater GNOME plan, or if it
was just written by somebody who's not privy to the GNOME chiefs' plans.

Just because it has a G on it, it doesn't mean that the GNOME foundation
will use it instead of aRts.  At least, I hope that's not their policy.

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Subject: Re: GStreamer
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:03:19 +0000
From: David "Hamish" Harvey <david.harvey at bristol.ac.uk>
To: kde-multimedia at master.kde.org


On Friday 12 January 2001 08:02, Neil Stevens wrote:
> I wonder, though, if GStreamer is part of a greater GNOME plan, or if it
> was just written by somebody who's not privy to the GNOME chiefs' plans.
>
> Just because it has a G on it, it doesn't mean that the GNOME foundation
> will use it instead of aRts.  At least, I hope that's not their policy.

Note, however, that it is written in C and based on (some of) the G*
libraries, which would probably appeal to them. I note that the slides on the
docs page list network transparency as one of the flaws with current systems,
but browsing around the other docs and object reference I see nothing to
suggest that network transparency has been considered in GStreamer.

As far as how it fits in the plan, it appears to be the product of a research
group, but there is no link to the group's page or anything like that to find
out more. It does look as if they have more comprehensive support of
arbitrary data types.

Cheers,
Hamish

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