Konrad Materka, GSOC proposal

[Konrad Materka]

Matthias Kretz napisał(a):
> On Friday 28 March 2008, Konrad Materka wrote:
>> Ian Monroe napisał(a):
>>> I'm pretty sure it's your signature and the way you send messages
>>> that's giving grief, so I confidently copy your message to respond to.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> SpamAssassin doesn't like me today:
>>>>  http://vir.homelinux.org/stupid_spamassassin.mbox
>>>> I didn't say whether the subtitle gets parsed in libphonon or in the
>>>> backend. And I'm not sure at this point where it really should go. But
>>>> ideally Phonon should be able to handle any media format, and that
>>>> includes ext. subtitle files.
>>>>
>>>> For a start I'd put subtitle parsing in the backend. It's easier to move
>>>> code from the backend to the frontend than the other way around.
>>> Given the Xine has no way to decode just subtitles, I suppose this
>>> means he'd have to add the functionality to like phonon-xine. Perhaps
>>> he could do it in a such a way that it'd be easy to add to other
>>> phonon backends.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the ability to drag around subtitles could be in the frontend at
>>> least?
>> Uh, I've just read this and I see it is getting warmer :)
>>
>> I wanted widget to have full control and for example capture mouse
>> events. Of course, we can propose workaround. For example, dragging
>> subtitles around: redirect some events or change subtitles positions in
>> realtime...
>> Simply, I (we!) have to make a choice - Phonon back-end or external widget.
>>
>> Phonon:
>> + one to rule them all
>> - loss of control
> 
> I don't see the loss of control.
> 
>> Widget:
>> + more control
>> + could be used without Phonon
>> + it was the first idea :)
>> - another universal library (in Phonon mean)
> 
> Usable without Phonon sounds like a plus, but really, how many use cases are 
> there for using a Qt/KDE-style API to subtitles but not use Phonon?

At least one ;) Sylvain "Skarsnik" Colinet on IRC asked me if it would 
be possible to use it in his karaoke player :) He is using xine 
directly, but maybe he will be using Phonon in that case :)

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