On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > I've downloaded libsmpeg, and after seeing the API, I have seen two
> > things that I dislike:
> > * it needs SDL
> > * it is in C++
> > Is somebody porting the code of this library to a pure C version
> > based only on GGI maybe into an extension or something?
>
> I think there are many people here interested in having movie playing
> supported by GGI. Maybe they could all speak up and form a team.
>
> There are player libs out there for mpg2, mpg and qt at least. What should
> be done is make a LibGGI-like wrapper for them that would give them a
> unified API and make it easy to use them from any graphics lib, especially
> LibGGI.
FINALLY there's interest :)
*giggle*
Okay, I'm going to rewrite that player I've been playing with anyways now
that I'm done classes.
MPEG2 -> what should I use as a source? My current copy of xmovie does
-not- work for colours. Everything else though. I haven't looked into
it.
(aside: I currently have the code for this already implemented - it plays
mp3's beautifully :)
[actually, with the player structured the way I have, it's more
CPU-efficient with mp3's than mpg123 :]
I was planning on using SMPEG for the mpeg player. The only real prob I
have with this is I have mpegs that crash it :)
The problems with GGI:
I need events handling even when video is not enabled.
(either that or FB/target needs to default to current layout and
talk to the current "text" mode :)
[this is the only driver I'm aware of that has a problem]
-> basically, if I try to watch the keyboard,mouse,...
without activating GGI, Bad Things Happen.
If I run GGI/fb with X running, my computer locks up.
I -like- my mp3 player but I don't like crashing.
And I don't always need video display. ideas?
Threading is mandatory. This hasn't been a problem in FB but X...
-> solution: make the display a client
-> problem: event handling has to be in the client too
-> problem: sharing the rendered memory with the client
efficiently
Any ideas?
I -do- have working code on my page at www.geocities.com/winterlion.
But it's old and needs repair.
I got frustrated trying to stablise the memory system so I went back to
school a bit....
Help, ideas, anything?
Does anyone else have a -better- way of writing this?
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
