[MPRIS] Captions on MediaPlayers

[Javier Hernández Antúnez]

Hi Mirsal,

thank you for your explanations!
Comments are below ...


2013/10/16 mirsal <mirsal at mirsal.fr>

> 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
>


Thanks, I googled a bit and I've found his proposal here [1]
Once reviewed that, I think it's a good start, but don't know (or at least,
I haven't found it) if this proposal was already discussed, and where, and
the resolution of it.



>
> > 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)
>

Nice, I'm putting Jean-Paul on cc (just in case he's not subscribed to this
list), because I'd like to know a bit more about the old proposal, and/or
if I should start sharing my thoughts about what do I'd like the MPRIS to
have in relation with captions (on a separate thread).


>
> 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/
>
> --
> mirsal
>


Thanks again for all the pointers, at this moment I don't know from where
to start contributing, so I'll wait until Jean Paul (or anything else) put
me on the right direction to start working on the captions thing. But if
you feel that I should start looking to something prior to start
contributing, I will be happy with that too. :]


Cheers,
Javi




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[1] http://www.m2x.eu/~jpsaman/MPRIS-2-proposal.dbus

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