Now that I've sent out the release announcement for TRPlayer 1.2.0, I
hope the whole version numbering mess is cleared up. Now I'd like to
start discussing future development of TRPlayer.
At this point, I think TRPlayer has all of the basic features it needs
to be useful as a media player. Any other features added to TRPlayer
-- configuration options, bookmarks, volume control, etc. -- are
extras. However, there's one other thing that I've been asked to
create: a program to create and modify the configuration file that
RealPlayer's shared libraries use to determine the maximum stream
bandwidth, the available methods for connecting to a server, and some
other parameters. This configuration file is a plain-text file with a
simple format, so I could probably write such a configuration utility
in an interpreted language such as Python. However, I can't find any
documentation about this configuration file in the RealSystem SDK, so
I may need to figure out the possible values for the parameters on my
own (especially the bandwidth-related parameters).
Once we have a utility to create and modify the RealPlayer
configuration file, then I can work on other features that have been
suggested on the mailing list. What additional features would be most
useful? We've discussed bookmarks before; I still need to get some
more information from RealNetworks about the XML-based file format
that they use for bookmarks or presets.
This project has been dormant long enough; I'd like to bring it backto
life and continue to make TRPlayer more useful.
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Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/> ICQ #: 33005941
