[vlc-devel] Re: [bmpx] Re: [Banshee-List] [bmpx] Re: Proposal for a common D-Bus interface for media players

[Peter Stuge]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:53:51AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> - What if the user wants to switch his preferred media player from
>   Amarok to BMPx, Videolan, Audacious or XMMS2?
> 
>   + We could send a signal to the other player saying that it is OK
>     to takeover the common interface, but if an application is slow
>     to release the interface, the other player may not successfully
>     bind to the org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer instance like desired.

Does DBUS support bus mastering/bus sharing like some other buses? In
that case it just uses timeouts.

(Yes, I know it's not a hardware bus.)


//Peter