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

[From: Wang Baisheng]

Dear, Martin,

I have just got the news from Canola guys and Etrunko said that there is 
Gstreamer backend, but there is something wrong when  importing the files
from the closed source tree. 

Thanks & Regards,
Baisheng

On Friday 17 April 2009 04:27:05 pm Martin Grimme wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> to get you started, a GStreamer backend for MediaBox is available here:
>
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/mediaplayer/?root
>=mediabox
>
> Perhaps it'll be helpful for adding GStreamer backend to atabake.
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> 2009/4/17, Martin Grimme <martin.grimme at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't think that Canola/atabake has a direct GStreamer backend. Only
> > indirect through osso-media-server. But it shouldn't be too hard to
> > add one to atabake.
> > Maybe the Canola guys can tell you more about this.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> >
> > 2009/4/18, Wang Baisheng <baisheng.wang.cn at gmail.com>:
> >> Dear Martin,
> >>
> >> Now I want to run Canola and use Gstreamer as atabake backend, but
> >> currently
> >> I
> >> only find the mplayer(mplayer_backend.py) and oms(oms_backend.py)
> >> backend for
> >> atabake in Canola source, So where can I found some Gstreamer backend
> >> for atabake ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Baisheng
> >>
> >> On Friday 17 April 2009 05:25:09 am 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
> >>> > Med ia 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.
> >>> >
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> >>> >
> >>> >         Wind Zhou
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