[vlc] GStreamer integration

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:56 +0200, Ivan Matylitski <buffovich at mail.ru>
wrote:
> Your command in the long term thinks of integration with GStreamer
> project?

Probably never.

> Or you have basic reasons not to do it?

For one thing, gstreamer is based on the abomination widely known as
GObject.

> Simply idea GStreamer is reasonable enough and harmonous.

Using GObject from C code looks more like insanity than reason to me.

> As it enters in freedesktop.org.

FreeDesktop.org is making influenced choices.

If you look at the members and sponsors of FDO, you'll notice a few
companies with very vested interest in "their" technologies, such as
gstreamer. For marketing purpose, it is very convenient for them to pretend
gstreamer is "THE" open-source multimedia framework. It is oh so convenient
to exclude the other frameworks and pretend they don't exist. Nevermind
that there is ffmpeg, xine-lib, libvlc, and I don't know what else too.

> Only here the worthy player application for this
> purpose framework it is not created yet.

Maybe the framework is wrong then?

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont