[MPRIS] Captions on MediaPlayers

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Javier Hernández Antúnez
<jhernandez at emergya.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> First of all I'm going to introduce myself. I'm Javier Hernández [1]
> and I work as free software developer at Emergya [2].
> Among many other projects, we're working on an European project called
> Cloud4All [3], under the FP7 framework programme [4]. The Cloud4all project
> aims to develop some components of the GPII (Global Public Inclusive
> Infrastructure) [5]
>
> We (Emergya) are the responsible team for the implementation on
> GNU/Linux-GNOME, and we are working on the Android one too.
> After a few months of work, a few questions have been raised and one
> of those questions is if we're able to deal with captions and
> languages (in our case, via DBUS) in media players. I made some
> research about it, and I discovered that most of the media players
> (like totem) expose their DBUS API following the freedesktop MPRIS
> specification.
>
> I've been looking at the specification and I was wondering how I can
> contribute (by proposing and/or adding new features) to the
> MPRIS specification, and if it really make sense, taking into account our
> needs.

If it's about controlling media players then this is the place.

Ian