fre 2005-08-26 klockan 17:07 +0200 skrev Martin Schön: > That leaves the format question. Every player supports mp3, but many > linux > distributions don't (at least officially), because of patents on the > format. Vorbis is > supported by most distributions, but only by a tiny portion of the > players. > > And the message must be very clear. Nothing like "this format is not > supported", > which sounds like the file can't even be saved. More like "you won't be > able to > listen to this file on your player". >
I agree, the message must be clear and informative. However, the specific mp3 problem is not ours, but a problem of the distributions. > But there's still the dependency problem. Either one big dependency > (gstreamer) or > a lot of small ones. Neither one is really good. And if the music > management in gnome is > to be like cd->player/ripper, then for consistency's sake it should also > be player->portable. > No direct handling of files, just drag&drop inside an application like > rhythmbox, which > then could handle things like that. Well I think the choise if gstreamer is easy, since it is supported in other places. I realize that Alex doesn't want to have gnome-vfs depend on gstreamer, so I suggest that this kind of functionality is developed outside the gnome-vfs project. //Snaggen _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
