(delayed) GSoC status update

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:35 AM, <sandsmark at samfundet.no> wrote:
>> I don't think there's much point in doing integration. We already have
>> someone (Casper) who expressed interest in this and in general once
>> the phonon pieces are in place I don't think finding someone to
>> develop an visualization will be hard since its a fun thing to
>> develop.
>
> Butbutbut, that's the fun part! :-P
>
> I'll see if I can retrofit the old bouncy bars and whatnot at least,
> shouldn't be too hard I think (I gave it some thought on the bus up
> here). I miss the bouncy bars.
>
> I'll try to get on IRC, and tell the guy in #vsxu that he can start
> working on his stuff (he was pretty eager too :-P).
>
>
>> I'll bug jb.
>
> Thanks.

Well I dropped (nearly) off the face of the internet before I was able
to do this. I´ll be a better mentor in the future.

>> Fix the bugs? :P
>
> I can try :-P
> But I know next to nothing about GStreamer (all I know I learned in
> the last months), so it's mostly just shots in the dark.
>
>
>> Really don´t worry about bugs that aren't years. Novell is already
>> asking people to use it so having support for phonon-gst is useful
>> regardless of how sucky it is.
>
> Well, it's still kind of non-fun to try to develop on something that
> doesn't work for yourself. But I'll at least try to fix what I have
> already. It should work, probably some simple thing that I've
> overlooked.
>
>
>
> I've also attached a git commit that fixes the
> Phonon::Xine::AudioDataOutput (I get audio data from my simpleplayer
> and sound out of my speakers, at the same time!). I couldn't get git
> to push now, but I thought it was nice to show some progress anyways
> :-). I'm not completely finished with the xine stuff yet, as I want to
> clean it up a bit, but at least it works.

Yea I just replied to you privately to the commit message. But just to
clarify: this is fuckin´ great news. :D

Ian