[haiku-development] Re: Media Kit and Cortex.
- From: David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:30:21 +1000
2009/5/11 David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/5/11 Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hey David.
>>
>> As you are my favorite Media Kit guru now, I thought I would mention thos to
>> you: We have a *REALLY* great tool to work with the Media Kit called Cortex
>> (I guess you are probably aware of it). Right now it does not work as well
>> as it should due to bugs on it and missing parts and bugs in the Media Kit.
>> Getting it to work right would probably be a great way to make the Media Kit
>> more complete and robust.
>
> I have played with cortex a few times.
>
>> Just as an example, in theory you can drag a MP3 file (for example, but any
>> supported media file would do) to it and it would create a node that you
>> could connect to a Decoder node and then connect to the mixer and, then,
>> start everything to play the audio. This is broken due to missing
>> functionality in Media Kit (run cortex from the Terminal and drag an MP3
>> file to it and you will see what is broken).
>>
>> Another thing that the media kit misses ad that Cortex usew to play videos
>> is a Video Window Consumer, which is just a node that plays raw video (you
>> connect the video file video stream to a decoder node, then connect the
>> decoder node to the video window consumer (of course you also have to
>> connect the audio separately to a decoder and then, to the mixer).
>>
>> Anyway, what do you think about looking into this? :)
>
> Sure, I will see what I can do.
Ok I did an implementation of SniffRef and if the reader.media.add-on
is included in the add-ons directory dragging a media file into Cortex
will instantiate the nodes.
Still doesn't play though. The outputs are not compatable. :-(
--
Cheers
David
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