Am Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:10:54 +0900 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The
Rasterman):
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:41:23 +0200 Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net>
> said:
>
> > Am Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:20:51 +0200 schrieb Andreas Volz:
> >
> > > Am Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:08:24 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Vincent Torri:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Andreas Volz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm a little confused by the emotion API. Lets take e.g. a
> > > > > look on the different mute calls
> > > > >
> > > > > emotion_object_video_mute_set
> > > > >
> > > > > You can' mute a video, only the audio from a video. So why is
> > > > > this call needed?
> > > >
> > > > Why *can't* the video playback be muted ? It's not a common used
> > > > case, but it can be done, you'll have sound or subtitle, but
> > > > not the frames :)
> > >
> > > Hm, I think more what happens if I call
> > > emotion_object_audio_mute_set on a video handle? Is video like
> > > "inherited" from audio? A video has a audio channel in most cases.
> > >
> > > Is this emotion_object_audio_mute_set able to muse the audio
> > > channel from a video? Or isn't it possible to mix audio_* and
> > > video_* calls in the same edje object?
> >
> > Ahhhh, after writing this text I got it! It was a language problem.
> > I did know the word "mute" only in the audio context. But muting a
> > video is like not displaying it, not?
> >
> > Then forget my question. :-)
>
> correct :) mute generally only is used for sound. as emotion just
> addresses the different parts of a "media file" - i re-used the mute
> meaning. it's not strictly correct. you cant "mute" video in normal
> english - i used it to be consistent and simple. maybe "blank" or "no
> decode" or whatever would be more correct, but it's simpler and
> consistent to use mute here.
Maybe I'll change the function name in the c++ binding. If I simply
name it mute() in each class the video mute overwrites the audio mute,
which is probably not what the user likes to do.
regards
Andreas
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