Status reports towards 0.8: was Re: [gst-devel] Totem, Gst-Player, libgstplay showstoppers

[Benjamin Otte]

Things I want to work on:

- autoplugging.
It's what I'm currently thinking about. But I'm not going to start coding
on this until I have a clear idea where I want to go. Currently I don't
have one. And I want the autoplugger to just work, so it's important for
me that I do it right. (Plus you know my perfectionism related to that...)

- has_{audio,video} (gchar *file);
Given a filename, does this have audio? Write a function that figures this
out so we know if we should add the file to our playlist. This doesn't
work without a new autoplugger. And it leads directly to:

- read out tags from a given list of files
Kinda self explanatory.

And because all of this is blocking right now, I'm mainly focussing on
bugfixing stuff or fixing what's annoying me in general. In the last days
that included:
- fixing a nasty typefinding problem in streamdetection
- hacking on vorbisdec and oggdemux
- getting asfdemux to work on different machines
- clocking
and was heavily influenced by problems people had in IRC.

Benjamin


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Christian Schaller wrote:

> I guess what would be good is if everyone wrote a short mail to the list
> with what their hacking priorities are before 0.8. ie what do they plan
> to look at and in what order. Julien lists some of the issues in these
> mails, and there are probably other things other people are looking at.
> So to get stuff on the table and get a feel for what is getting looked
> at when; a short mail from David, Benjamin, Ronald, Thomas, Leif, Iain,
> Jeremy, Maciej and others about their priorities towards 0.8 would be
> really great in order to get a feeling we are all on the same page and
> also make sure that no major issues are falling between chairs here.
>