[gst-devel] D-BUS based multimedia server

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:17, Steve Baker wrote:
> > I believe D-BUS could fit the picture here better than Bonobo so maybe
> > Gnostream could start making some sense again.
>
> I've also thought about using D-BUS as a transport protocol for a media
> server. My immediate concern would be D-BUS not delivering the kinds of
> latency required by multimedia applications. It might not be engineered
> to optimally deliver continuous chunks of media data. Also any stream
> would have to go through *2* IPC message passes to reach a media server
> (app -> d-bus-daemon -> media server)
>
> I'm sure the actual performance of this could be measured with some
> easily coded tests.
>
> message-bus-list peeps might be able to enlighten us with their expert
> opinions as well.

For pretty much the same reason arts doesn't use DCOP (which is very similar 
to D-BUS) but uses MCOP instead. I haven't seen any actual performance data 
of it though.

Cheers,
Waldo
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