[MPRIS] Captions on MediaPlayers

[mirsal]

Hi Javier!

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 20:40 +0200, Javier Hernández Antúnez wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, though as you probably have noticed, the mpris currently does
not include an API for managing captions and languages (yet?)

Jean-Paul Saman[0] did some work on an elementary streams API at some
point, though it never got included in the spec

> 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.

The current way of doing things around here is to discuss changes first
on the mailing list, and release when consensus is reached on a set of
features. (Alex Merry[1] and I are working on a version 2.3, though work
on my end has kind of stalled because I have been very busy lately with
other things)

The source XML docs and the build system are in a git repository hosted
at freedesktop[2], patches are welcome :)

Thanks!

[0] jpsaman at videolan.org
[1] kde at randomguy3.me.uk
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/mpris-spec/

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mirsal 
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