On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:16 PM, blindfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > When Dianne said... > > > Contributing patches would be a much more effective approach than a > petition. > > ...the specific patches she presumably meant would be patches to make > > this as-yet incomplete code into a stable, usable, library. > My concern is that at its lowest level javax.sound too is mostly > hampered by Android MediaPlayer being a "more or less stand-alone and > closed-source native application" that communicates with Android > through a too limited set of methods and data structures (e.g., > files). As far as I know, there is nothing related to any of the issues being discussed that is at this point closed source. The media player application source is available; the framework's implementation of MediaPlayer (this is part of the framework, not an application) is certainly all open sourced; and the low-level native PV libraries are all available as source. You can, today, go and download the android open-source project, and starting modifying PV and the framework to support streaming. That was all that I was trying to point out when saying people can submit patches: this discussion seems to be rooted on the view that "google is the only one who can help us," when this is no longer the case and anyone can contribute. So if there is some specific feature you absolutely need, in some cases it may be a good use of time to just go and add it instead of asking for others to do so. That all said, I am not that familiar with the media stuff, but as David has said the things being asked for here are already well known limitations that effort is being put in to addressing. By and large, all of the thingsbeing asked for aren't missing because they weren't deemed important, but simply because doing them is not trivial and will take significant effort to accomplish. As such, continual requests to have them added is not going to make that happen any faster. :) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
