[gst-devel] GstTuner

[Stefan Kost]

Hi Lutz,

okay, I see the point that we need such an interface, but still not see whats 
the benefit of having separate tar and bzip/gzip elements over just using 
gnomefvs-src. Despite its name gnomevfs is not dependent on gnomelibs and 
nowadays relative portable. I know that people are adding more handlers (e.g. 
for zip) to gnomevfs. So gst-apps would automaticaly benefit.

I just see a maintainance problem and duplication of efforts here.

Stefan

Lutz Müller wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 16:06 +0100, Stefan Kost wrote:
> 
>>what is the use case for this? 
> 
> 
> gnome-cd beethoven-op-18.tar.bz2 (playlist showing files in the tarball)
> totem tuner:// (playlist showing channels)
> gst-launch cdiocddasrc ! ... ! tarenc ! bz2enc ! filesink
> location=tarball.tar.gz
> 
> But above all: Abstraction.
> 
> 
>>Playing files from one tar-file is like
>>using a playlist. GStreamer itself currently does not care about
>>playlists (as far as I know). That is usually handled by apps.
> 
> 
> Sure. But that itself doesn't mean we can't change it :-). 
> 
> For me, there is no difference between 
> (1) a CD, 
> (2) a file sample.tar.bz2 containing audio files
> (3) a tuner with a number of channels
> 
> It's like with the old audio discs: Put the needle on one track and
> there you are.
> 
> So instead of using tags and properties for (1), other tags for (2)
> (named differently as was lately proposed on this list) and a separate
> interface for (3) we should aim for some abstraction.
> 
> Regards