Fwd: I want Amarok for video!

[Ljubomir Simin]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:32, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Wednesday 07 March 2007 01:07 skrev Stig Nyström:
> <snip a lot about video support and such>
>
>   Just to clear things up here a bit, the video support which will be
> included in Amarok is very simple and will (unlike most people's
> impression) add exactly zero overhead. The reason for this is that the
> engines already basically handle the video streams (except for the decoding
> and showing of them), and the way the actual visual will be presented to
> the user is just like that: As a visual. If you have the visualiser shown,
> then if Amarok detects a video stream in the file, the visualisation will
> be replaced with that video stream.
>   Think of it this way: Amarok is a music player. If your music files have
> a video stream, then it can be argued that this video stream is a
> visualisation of the sound, and as such should supercede the generated
> visual.

This is a great explanation which we should remember and put somewhere on the 
wiki.

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