[vorbis] Re: [vorbis-dev] Semi-off-topic ramblings

[David Balazic]

Tony Arcieri wrote :

>    I'm curious if anyone else is at all fed up with the current
>    state-of-affairs of media support under *IX. As things stand it's rather
>    a pain to add support for a new codec/framing format to an application,
>    and it seems like were someone to step up and design a system which
>    abstracts media support from end-user applications and supports drop-in
>    modules for framing formats and codecs, it would greatly ease the process
>    that new formats like ogg and vorbis are going through right now.

What you're talking about are Amiga DataTypes(tm). It's a dream !
Install a PNG-datatype driver and now all of your apps(*) support
PNG images !
It works also with audio files, text files, animations , hypertext
documents etc ...

(*) - all apps that use the datatypes system 

I wonder nothing like this exists on other platforms.
Maybe someone is working on this, should search web ...

There are sime projects ( libraries ) that do part of this,
but usually have limited capabilities, like libsndfile ,
imlib etc.

I hope something like this will be avaliable soon as free software.
 
>    Certainly the drop-in module solution is the case with some applications
>    (e.g. xmms), but wouldn't it be nice if with one drop-in module all
>    applications could support a codec?
> 
>    I've given the subject quite a bit of thought (although I'm probably not
>    the one who should be thinking about how to implement this sort of thing)
>    If anyone else feels the same way or would like to discuss the idea I'd be 
>    glad to hear it.
> 
>    Tony Arcieri

David Balazic

P.S.: I moved the thread in to the vorbis list, as suggested by monty,
      alltough it _is_ a developer thing ( and not really vorbis related
)

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