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I absolutely loved that player. I actually STILL use it. It runs really nice under wine.

I thought about doing a clone of it and making it open source under the GPL but I'm still not quite as productive as I can be in C yet.

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Then use something else than C? I mean, there is a ton of players written in Python using GTK and GStreamer.

I like C. I like its performance and its syntax. Call me crazy.

edit: It's not that I don't like Python. I think it's a great scripting language. But for me, it's just too slow. Speed is important to me.

A key part of a lot of these pygtk players is that they rely on gstreamer to do the heavy lifting. Organizing a pipeline of "this source, this format, that sink" is not a performance problem -- it's a plumbing task. :)

well, it's not just the "plumbing" thing. I still have to worry about animation, loading the application, playlists, etc.

I understand Python could be a good choice and, yes, I agree it would be "easier". But jeez you know.. I just want to use C damn it. I want complete control over the memory. WHY CAN'T I JUST USE C?!! haha

If you'd written the python version and had profiles showing it was too slow, I'd believe you.

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