On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:53, Alex Launi <alex.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello hardware hackers who make life on Linux possible, > I'm working on updating Banshee Media Player to the modern age. Currently > Banshee is heavily dependent on HAL which makes it not so usable on more > modern distributions which have all but excised HAL. HAL may have been a > monolith, but it was very easy to get lots of information about hardware > from it. I'm trying to update Banshee to use udev/udisks for device support, > but I'm having lots of problems figuring out how to get the info we used to > get from HAL from udev. HAL had a bunch of media player information, like > playable formats, supported album art size, etc. How does one get this > information from udev? Did all of the old HAL fdi information just get > thrown away, or is it possibly shoved into some corner of udev I just > haven't shown my flashlight into yet. I'd appreciate any help I can get on > tackling this problem. If I haven't explained what I'm trying to do well > enough, please ask me to clarify anything. > Here are some of the relevant HAL properties we used to use, I'm not sure if > theyre important but maybe someone has already done this sort of thing and > this will remind them: > > portable_audio_player.cover_art_size > portable_audio_player.audio_folders > portable_audio_player.cover_art_file_name > portable_audio_player.output_formats > and tons more...
All the player info has moved to: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/media-player-info/ See here for details of the HAL replacement: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy Kay _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
