[MPlayer-dev-eng] not a Media player

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:49:58AM +0100, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/formats.html:
> 2.1.2. Audio formats
>   MPlayer is a Movie and not a Media player
> 
> Fair enough.
> I'm aiding a friend on a project to turn audio CD's into Karaoke CD's with
> an external lyrics file, to be fetched a-la CDDB
> This is suspicously like Mplayer subtitles...
> 
> Our idea was to extend to use flash-type libraries for showing
> movie-backgrounds as well as lyics.
> such as:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemovie/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libswf/
> 
> We would be producing a library which if given external time ticks would
> render the flash/lyrics in a given window.
> 
> So it basically adds a multimedia (or er.. "film") to audio CD's (or mp3s I
> guess)
> Would use of this be within the scope of Mplayer, or would you rather it was
> put elsewhere (not XMMS please).
> 
> Sam

While on the one hand this sounds kinda like silly bloat, the fact
that there is no working free flash player makes me rather like the
idea. Other opinions? I'm not sure how feasible it would be to work
with interactive flash, but that's an idea too i suppose.

Rich