[mpris] Fwd: MPRIS v2 proposal

[Oben Sonne]

2009/4/1 Mirsal Ennaime <mirsal.ennaime at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at m2x.nl> wrote:
>> Hello mirsal,
> Hello
>
>> As one of the original authors of MPRIS specification and implementation
>> in VLC I hereby sent you a proposal for extending/updating this
>> specification.
>>
>> I use the MPRIS specification a lot in solutions using VLC. It is an
>> awsome IPC (Interprocess communication protocol). However for advanced
>> usage it is quite limited, some information that you can find in media
>> players user interface are not available through MPRIS v1 specification.
>> Therefore here my proposal for an extension.
>>
>> Please comment on my proposal.
>
> I'm sorry about the delay, my personal mailbox got swamped.
>
> The first version of MPRIS was written with only audio players in
> mind, so there were clear lacks in this domain, so adding /ES is IMO a
> good idea.
>
> I have a few objections however:
> - Rate control methods should reside in /Player, not in /TrackList
> - /ES related caps should be more granular (I'd add
> CAN_CONTROL_SUBTITLES and CAN CONTROL_TELETEXT)
> - CAN_RATE may be better named CAN_CONTROL_RATE
>
> There are other issues to be fixed before 2.0 can be released though.
> Thanks for your proposal, I'm forwarding it to the MPRIS mailing list.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Mirsal Ennaime

Nice to here that this useful interface is going to be extended.

The last mail only seems to list changes to a previous v2 proposal. Is
there a place to review the complete current state of MPRIS v2 ?

Best Regards,
Oben