Mario Goebbels wrote: > Here's something else I've thought about: > > In Windows, Songbird uses VLC for all playback business, under *nix, it's > GStreamer. Since the situation in Solaris regarding GStreamer is in a rather > sorry state right now, would it be possible to make it use VLC, too? > > We're actually moving away from using VLC. Sometime (possibly in 0.7, but more likely in the 0.8 timeframe) we'll be usign GStreamer across all 4 platforms (OpenSolaris, Linux, Mac, & Windows). It's possible VLC will live on in as an add-on media core (like our current QuickTime & Windows Media Player add-ons).
It's certainly *possible* to get it to use VLC, but there are a lot of "Windows|Mac=VLC & *nix=GStreamer" assumptions throughout the code, so it would involve some porting effort. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
