Brian Cameron wrote: > > Calum: > > I wanted to discuss the spec for the "Sound & Video" section. As you > highlight, this section is bewildering in its duplicated choices. > Here's my perspective on what we should be doing and details about > the programs. > > 1) We probably don't need to include Java Media Player in the menu > anymore. I believe that realplay does everything that JMP can > do and more.
Drop it > > 2) We probably do not want to ship vu-meter at all. Note that this > volume meter only works with esd, and aside from desktop sounds > all GNOME media programs use gstreamer talking directly to the > sunaudio device rather than esd. So this vumeter isn't really > very useful. > > 3) I think Real Media allows users to play CD's. Therefore, we > probably don't want gnome-cd in the menu. It isn't a very > good CD player anyway. If we ever get sound-juicer working > (we first need to get libparanoia working on Solaris), then > we could include sound-juicer since it is a good CD ripping > tool (something Real does not do). So sound-juicer is probably > OK listed as TBD. If RealPlayer plays CD lets drop gnome-cd, as to sound-juicer I do not think we need to ship a CD ripper, suers can downlaod it from blastwave > > 4) It's annoying that we include Audio Control and "Volume Control". > We probably need to evaluate these two from a functionality > and accessibility perspective and figure out which one to > ship. sdtaudiocontrol uses Java and gnome-volume-control uses > GTK+ so they both should be accessible. > > 5) We probably do want to include totem just because some users > may want to download Fluendo DVD, MPEG4, WindowsMedia, etc. > plugins and this tool therefore will allow people to play > some media types unsupported by Real. We definetly want totem, we can patch it or get fluendo to patch it to point to the fluendo website > > 6) We may want to consider including Jamboree. It is a program > that lets you manage playlists of audiofiles, much like > iTunes does. Jamboree does not interact with the CD player, > but for usrs who have a hard drive full of sound files, > Jamboree makes it possible to jukebox your audio. I added > Jamboree to the extra-specs so you can build it and see how > it works. Let me know if you think this should be added. > One hassle is that Jamboree uses the gdmb (GNU Database) > interfaces and we'll probably have to hack Jamboree to use > Berkely DB instead if we want to ship this. That shouldn't > be too much work, though. I think we should definetly include this > > 7) We should not ship gnome-sound-recorder unless we get around > to writing a GStreamer 0.10 SunAudio record plugin. There > currently is no record plugin for Solaris, so you can't > record anyway. We can add this back (since it is the only > program that allows you to record audio) if we do this. I vote drop it > > So I propose this menu should just have: > > Either Audio Control or Volume Control > CD Database Should CD database be in this sub-menu > Real Player 10 > Sound Juicer (TBD) > Jamboree (TBD) > Totem Movie Player > > Hope this helps... > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
