[Libvisual-devel] Re: Comments & Suggestions

[Scott W. <bau...@co...>]

Scott:
>> If the visualizer is a data recorder, for instance, it would want
>> to know about dropped frames.
[snippage]
DenNis:
> What do you mean by data recorder ?, I audio capture plugin ?
[snippage]
> I don't think you should implement one as a VisActor  :)  for that
> kind of stuff you really want gstreamer (http://gstreamer.net)

I was thinking more in terms of a spectrum analyzer with a history
(think of an old-style seismograph with the scrolling roll of paper.)

However, your reference to GStreamer caught my eye - I've been meaning
to check it out and your link was the impetus: I've just spent the
last 18 hours (!) soaking up their website.

All I can say is: Wow!

I'm probably going to be spending the next 18 to 18,000 hours seeing just
how difficult it would be to implement a standard set of cross-platform
plugins to get GStreamer working in practice rather than theory at
least on Linux/Win32 if not Macintosh.  I did a fresh Fedora Core 3
install and updated all of the GStreamer stuff (dependency hell, if I've
ever seen one) and I still can't get Totem to do any visualizers on
audio-only streams - blah.

S.W.