Re^2: Alternatives to SDL

CMD is out. It's a touchscreen interface for my car (eventually a digital dash as well, but these issues have been holding that at a standstill).

Non-perl docs is not a big issue, much of SDL isn't documentated and had to spend a good deal of time in the C docs for it anwyay.

Most of what I'm doing on screen is just blitting sprites (and managing the animation frames), and some TTF text. I had some OpenGL aspirations, but at this point, that's on the far horizon.

-Lee
"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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Re^3: Alternatives to SDL by Joost (Canon) on Feb 06, 2007 at 21:40 UTC
CMD is out. It's a touchscreen interface for my car What I meant was, you could fairly easily control a command line player from perl using whatever GUI you want. Unless you need very tight control, you don't have to run the audio stream through the perl process. for example, mplayer has single-key commands for almost every action. it's probably not very hard to wire that to a perl program. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: Alternatives to SDL by shotgunefx (Parson) on Feb 06, 2007 at 21:48 UTC
Gotcha, still out though. Yes, I want it fairly tight, one of the reason I dumped XMMS. In all fairness, it worked quite well for the most part, but occasionally it would lag too much which would make the interface sluggish and a bit unintuitive. For instance, anything that modified the playlist would take forever, (sometimes more than a minute). I suppose I could just use it to play and manage the playlist myself, but detecting song changes was hacky. I figured if I could just use SDL and SDL::Mixer, I could have a fairly portable solution. :\ -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]
Re^5: Alternatives to SDL by Joost (Canon) on Feb 06, 2007 at 21:53 UTC
It does sound to me that GStreamer might be your best option, then. It's designed to build media players (and other media apps) on. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]