[maemo-developers] Is osso-media-server open source?

From: Quim Gil quim.gil at nokia.com
Date: Fri Apr 17 12:45:26 EEST 2009
For the Maemo 5 multimedia plans & source see also

http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle#Media_Application_Framework
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle#Multimedia

Quim

ext Martin Grimme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> osso-media-server is a D-Bus service that comes preinstalled on the
> tablets for playing media. Applications can control it via D-Bus, but
> the source code is not available.
> 
> Its interface is not even public and applications using it won't work
> on the next major Maemo release (Maemo 5). So Nokia discourages using
> the osso-media-server interface by 3rd party applications. Maemo 5
> will have another more versatile media server which will be open
> source.
> 
> But osso-media-server is using GStreamer internally, which is open
> source, so you might want to take a look there.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 2009/4/17, Zhou, Jianchun (周建春) <jianchun.zhou at asianux.com>:
>> HI, there:
>>
>> I am new to Maemo, and now I am interested in Canola, especially it's Media Backend.
>>
>> I found that there is a media backend named oms(osso media server)
>>
>> I want to get it's source code to develop it.
>>
>> Is it open source?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Best Regards
>>
>>         Wind Zhou
>>
>>
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