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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas???
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:32:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609181432.k8IEW4W13525@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:15:39 +0200." <33fa8d1671b63f63c5a473d29d7cfb81@mail.gmx.net>

> man 7 juke # juke(7)
> man 7 playlistfs # playlistfs(7)
> 
> I have not yet looked deeply enough into those, but as far as I recall,
> you create a decoder for each file-type as an external program.

right.

> I have no idea how things like fast-forward/backward work, for instance

they don't, as far as I know.

> (pause, etc). 

stop/continue reading from the decoder, I think.

> And I have no idea how I easily create playlists.
> It's shell magic for mplayer, and GUIs using mplayer
> may also provide ways - as I read the manpages,
> I am supposed to write maps myself. :-(

it is possible to generate (template) maps.
either when you get the music from cd (readcd does this)
or using the tags that are present in (e.g.) mp3 files.


> Supposed those things are easily done, 'porting mplayer'
> becomes 'port the codecs, create a decoder for each of those'.
> At least for the audio-part. But imho it works for video, too.
> 
> 
> Speaking of those manpages, what is audio(7)? I don't have that manpage.

since audio(7) is not there, intro(7) makes me guess that will be about
'proprietary data that is not distributed outside Bell Laboratories'.


Axel.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-18 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-17 12:21 tushar mahule
2006-09-17 12:24 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-17 12:28   ` tushar mahule
2006-09-17 12:34     ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-17 12:41       ` tushar mahule
2006-09-17 13:03         ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-17 15:31           ` Russ Cox
2006-09-17 20:49             ` geoff
2006-09-17 20:05         ` Paweł Lasek
2006-09-17 20:10           ` John Floren
2006-09-18  9:32             ` Harri Haataja
2006-09-18 10:54               ` Paweł Lasek
2006-09-18 13:15             ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-18 14:32               ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2006-09-18 14:53                 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-18 17:48                   ` Axel Belinfante
2006-09-18 19:30                   ` Axel Belinfante
2006-09-19 13:43                     ` juke - does it need some love? (was: Re: [9fans] Ideas???) Sascha Retzki
2006-09-20  1:12                       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-17 20:34           ` [9fans] Ideas??? erik quanstrom
2006-09-17 12:44       ` tushar mahule
2006-09-17 12:54         ` Benn Newman
2006-09-17 13:02         ` Sascha Retzki
2006-09-17 18:26         ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-18 16:13     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-09-18 16:49       ` jmk

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