[Meego-tv] Candidate specification for a generic video player

[Brendan Le Foll]

On 14 March 2011 23:05, Dominig ar Foll <dominig.arfoll at fridu.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when you start to play video on Linux you realise quickly that no
> solution can cover the full need of playing video for a real full TV
> application. If you try to create a Consumer Electronic (CE) device, you
> likely use a System on Chip (SoC) which provides a concept of video
> overlay which provide a great help on performance but make any
> integration very specific.
>
> The proposed specification aims at creating a generic service for Linux
> (I will start by MeeGo TV) which could unify the play out of a video and
> make transparent the support of various hardware helper provider by some
> chip and in particular the support of overlay video common on SoC.

This looks great! One thing, can support be added for changing the
user-agent in cases of http streams? For example this is required to
stream videos from Apple Movie Trailers.

Thanks,
Brendan

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