[ogg-dev] Re: Summer of Code: subtitle editor

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Sat May 27 12:50:33 PDT 2006


On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:44:38PM +0200, Michael Smith wrote:

> >> It will be useful if You told me what libraries mostly using in
> >> Xiph.org. For example if You (Xiph.org) mostly use GSTreamer for
> >> multimedia content output (audio/video), I can replace SDL on GSTreamer
> >> in my project plan.
> >
> >I'm ok with using GStreamer for playback. this is an end user app, and
> >that seems the option with the most momentum at the moment. Mike,
> >Conrad, do you agree?
> 
> Well, since I spend significant amounts of time hacking on gstreamer,
> I'm probably not the most objective of people. However, that also
> means I'm in a better position to assist with developing this code.
> It's a lot easier to create a fully-functional player using gstreamer
> than starting from low-level libraries...

This is probably the best argument, given the ambitious nature of the 
project.

CC'ing ogg-dev to move things into the open. Daraku is Maxim Litvinov,
our Google Summer of Code student who will be developing a subtitle
editor.

 -r


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