On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
t>Xine
forget it - it may be too hard, and you'll have to hack xine sources anyway. You can try xine-remote, but you'll have to run xine anyway...
Strange, I haven't tried that myself but the documents indicated that there was a simple API for playing video with xine engine. But then, I have an impression that MPlayer and Xine are pretty rough competitors, and if one asks on Mplayer list about Xine, the answer should be easy to guess ;)
t>Gstreamer
never tried it...
Neither really me, but I did read the docs. IMHO Gstreamer is the future of streaming media on Linux, so in the longer run you should take a serious look into it. But for building a simple media player, it might not be the fastest way at the moment. But this really depends on your requirements--Gstreamer is plugin based and very flexible, so if the other programs don't fill your needs, Gstreamer might be the right choice.