Re: [Libvisual-devel] Re: Comments & Suggestions

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 16:31 -0500, Scott Watson wrote:
> 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.)

I think that would look just right, even with possible framedrops.
I won't be a scientifical ready thing, but visually it would look
just cool :)

> 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!

Haha, owyeah, I am suprised you never heard off it!, It's amazing stuff
and without doubt the future multimedia framework for linux.

> 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.

No idea regarding totem, best chance is to ask them on the their list
or irc.freenode.net #gstreamer ...

Have fun hacking and please keep us updated as well!

Cheers,
Dennis