[haiku-inc] Re: Contract Proposal Probe
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:53:35 +0100
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:35:30PM +0000, Sean Collins wrote:
I would however fork the existing media kit, and call the existing media kit
LibLegacyMediaKit and implement it is a library
It already is libmedia.so, and can't be renamed because of binary
compatibility.
to really accomplish what dario wants to do accomplish, is going to require
scrapping a lot of the existing code and really changing the way things
operate. I think looking at existing solutions like ASIO or Jack would be
the best thing to do. also while FFMPEG is a nice layer for pro audio work
everything is raw audio streams.
ffmpeg is only a plug-in, and only used to decode/encode media files. It
is not used in the core of the media kit anywhere (mixing, data streams,
etc).
Moreover, the media kit is not limited to pro audio. It just works with
realtime streams, and is mostly independant of the stream contents. So
you can carry raw audio, raw video, encoded a/v, subtitles, or anything
you may think of that requires precise timing.
I dunno, I suppose fixing problems is a good plan, but it may also break
many existing apps, it may just be better to put in a layer of abstraction
and start over to some extent.
As far as I can see, the goal of this contract is to improve on the
existing media kit, to better support streaming and fix several other
longstanding issues. This seems mostly independant from Dario's plan to
write a new media kit, which could be handled as you desccribed.
--
Adrien.
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