On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:20:32AM +0800, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Salam, > > >> >Quran application to play audio > >> >for the embedded systems. I guess the size'll be huge ? > > I think the application would not be hugh, only the audio file. User > will have to choose which audio file they want. > > >> > >> We could do in more lower level than the current libquran. Let it just > >> return the audio data along with it's mime type (it could be mp3, > >> speex, or anything). The playing of the audio is the responsibility of > >> the frontend, not libquran's. > >> > >> In this way, people could use libquran also when they don't need the > >> audio data. Today they should have libspeex in order to compile. > >> > > > >Nice idea, so that we needn't force an install of the audio data. > > Last time, i suggested something like this to M Yousif. It would be > better to be more flexible. I suggested to use something like > gstreamer or karts for audio handling, so that we don't have to worry > about supporting every audio type exist. That would be gstreamer's > job. Another thing that is not flexible in current audio handling is > the requirement of 1 file per ayah. the approach that I took for my > web application was we only store certain information about the audio. > Info that we need (in the library) are for every ayah, where is the > audio file, it's start time and it's end time. Then it is up to the > application to play it. I've uploaded the application, but I need to > fixe a few things before announcing it. I don't know why M Yousif didn't like the idea bit IMHO, gstreamer will increase the dependencies of libquran which something I personally don't like. I guess your approach in handling the audio files seems better. > >> >Not sure about Hildon. Are the Nokia developers welling to integrate any > >> >Arabic (RTL) specific patches > >> >into the maemo platform ? > >> > >> They should :-) > >> They might need to support RTL in some point. > > > >I'd love to see that happen ;-) > >I found that there are patches for RTL already. Maybe we can discuss this > >face to face! > > > > Since M Damt work in Nokia, this might happen. For other platform, it I work for Nokia too but I wouldn't waste the time of the community (Unless they volunteer) doing something that a company will do. > might be tougher. For example, for Pocket PC, Microsoft has provided > Uniscribe support to Windows Mobile 5. However, I have not come > accross any OEM distributing it with their products, at least not in > their english version. So, even if it is possible to have the RTL > support in the system, manufacturer seems to choose not to. No. Not to speak for arabeyes but I don't really like supporting proprietary software here. -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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