Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 17:42 +0100, Hans Meine wrote:
>> audio and video streams in different containers. Thinking about it, I'd say
>> let the backends deal with that diversity, have a proper default player
>> (which hopefully supports all formats) and automatically fal
Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I think rather than base the decision on codecs and/or extensions, we
> should look instead at more higher level requirements and capabilities.
> Maybe we can rank each capability. For example, something like:
>
> Capability Player Rank
> ---
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:40 +0100, Hans Meine wrote:
> Nice idea. However, from a mathematical perspective, one would probably have
> to weight the different capabilities, anyhow it will be quite difficult to
> find the right ranks (and/or weights) which result in "sensible" player
> choices.
On Friday 01 December 2006 21:42, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I think rather than base the decision on codecs and/or extensions, we
> should look instead at more higher level requirements and capabilities.
> Maybe we can rank each capability. For example, something like:
>
> Capability
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 17:42 +0100, Hans Meine wrote:
> audio and video streams in different containers. Thinking about it, I'd say
> let the backends deal with that diversity, have a proper default player
> (which hopefully supports all formats) and automatically fall back on another
> if that
On Friday 01 December 2006 16:54, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Is there a way to detect that xine has no mp3 support? Next question:
> can we play an avi? Yes we can if it has ac3 sound, no, we can't if it
> is mp3. Gstreamer with all its plugins is even worse.
The same question came up recently on kde-core
Hi,
I have something to discuss for kaa.popcorn and hope for some
input. First of all, kaa.popcorn can use mplayer, xine and gstreamer
as backend. But what is the best backend to use? How can we know if
the player can handle the file? Right now, there is an incomplete list
of extentions the backen
