|
From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets) |
Date: | Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:07:48 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> To my knowledge, mpv is probably the neetiest one to bring in media > playing capabilities; it has lots of codecs, is written to be embedded, > is free and would make Emacs be able to play music and video files > without external players. Adding multimedia capabilities opens up for > lots of flexibility and creativity; people can maybe do interesting > stuff with it. I would certainly like Emacs to become a multimedia > player, The question is what benefit is there to having it linked in as a library as opposed to accessing similar functionality via a sub-process. > I play my music with Emacs already :-). This would tend to argue in favor of not having it as a library since you can already do what you want just fine using a sub-process. Stefan
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |