Request for developer information

[Fred Worms]

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Bonjour,

 

As a developer of an application for talking digital books (please see http://talkingdocs.org ) I am less and less satisfied with the delopment tools presently used. I therefore want to start a Linux version. What I need is an audio player (mp2, mp3; wmv, .... ) and a programming interface with a few simple functions, specified below.

 

I wonder whether Banshee could be a good choice. I would appreciate suggestions as to the player and also as to suitable low-cost Linux development tools. (I did lots of Unix development work in the 80's and 90's, using 4GL's and C). Thanks in advance for your kind replies!

 

Fred Worms

 

 

Start playing file X at beginning

Start playing file X at time T in msecs

Get current time of file X that is playing

Get duration in msecs for file X that is playing

Pause, resume and stop playing.

 

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[Chris Howie]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Fred Worms<mworms@...> wrote:

> Bonjour,
>
> As a developer of an application for talking digital books (please see
> http://talkingdocs.org ) I am less and less satisfied with the delopment
> tools presently used. I therefore want to start a Linux version. What I need
> is an audio player (mp2, mp3; wmv, .... ) and a programming interface with a
> few simple functions, specified below.
>
> I wonder whether Banshee could be a good choice. I would appreciate
> suggestions as to the player and also as to suitable low-cost Linux
> development tools. (I did lots of Unix development work in the 80's and
> 90's, using 4GL's and C). Thanks in advance for your kind replies!
>
> Fred Worms
>
>
> Start playing file X at beginning
> Start playing file X at time T in msecs
> Get current time of file X that is playing
> Get duration in msecs for file X that is playing
> Pause, resume and stop playing.

Banshee sure will let addins do all of these, and quite a bit more!
As I understand it, there is currently not a lot of API documentation
available, but I believe somebody is working on writing some.

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Chris Howie
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[Bertrand Lorentz]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 08:42 +0200, Fred Worms wrote:

> Bonjour,
>  
> As a developer of an application for talking digital books (please see
> http://talkingdocs.org ) I am less and less satisfied with the
> delopment tools presently used. I therefore want to start a Linux
> version. What I need is an audio player (mp2, mp3; wmv, .... ) and a
> programming interface with a few simple functions, specified below.
>  
> I wonder whether Banshee could be a good choice. I would appreciate
> suggestions as to the player and also as to suitable low-cost Linux
> development tools. (I did lots of Unix development work in the 80's
> and 90's, using 4GL's and C). Thanks in advance for your kind replies!
>  
> Fred Worms
>  
>  
> Start playing file X at beginning
> Start playing file X at time T in msecs
> Get current time of file X that is playing
> Get duration in msecs for file X that is playing
> Pause, resume and stop playing.

Banshee is using gstreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) to
accomplish the functions outlined above, adding a lot of other features
on top of that. All of those can be used by extensions or standalone
user interface clients.

You can have a look at the Booksmarks extension as an example on how
those functions are used through the Banshee API. It's in the main
source tree, in src/Extensions/Banshee.Bookmarks/.

Muinshee is an example of a different user interface client, you can
find it in src/Clients/Muinshee/.

About developement tools, monodevelop (http://monodevelop.com/) is a
pretty nice IDE. You can use it to open, browse and compile the banshee
source. And it's the lowest cost : free !

I hope this helps !

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