Re: [Simca-developers] Re: corba

[Simon de B. <si...@z2...>]

> > Isn't that what a (ffmpeg) stream in/out objects should take care of? Or will
> > connector be able to 'recognize' some standard streams.
> 
> you might have noticed that i'm trying to avoid creating the objects
> manually. when user says i want a videoplayer he gets the complete patch
> consisting of several "little" objects - media in/out, timer +
> scheduler. it doesn't mean, as anne was afraid, that we (artm and simon)
> will have to invent the most generic and siutable for anybody compound
> objects - anybody will be able to do that, anybody who feels he has
> enough expertise and courage :)

yes, that's clear.

> 
> but compound objects (or components, or maybe we'll call them servlets?
> because they run on server. then their GUIs will be applets) aren't the
> only way to hide details. the "intelligent pipeline construction" is
> another. this technique can take care of inserting ffmpeg-out /
> ffmpeg-in objects on both ends of distributed connector if the types of
> the properties being connected are supported (or suggest) using
> ffmpeg-stuff.

So you get intelligent/flexible compound objects (servlets) that are
able to change in/out types according to connection. That's i think a
powerfull approach for hiding details..


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