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Here is a collection of media sources for consideration in development of the Open BeOS Media Kit API. See also OpenBeOS.MediaKit.Sinks
- Sound card
line in, mic in, multichannel in, digital in, on-board DSP
- Capture card
TV: audio, video, data
- Firewire/USB
video camera movie: audio, video, data
digital cameria mini-movie: audio, video, data
- Network card
streaming audio signal, streaming video signal
- Graphics card
rendered raw video (T&L, OpenGL), TV-in (see Capture card)
encoded video (hardware compression), raw video (hardware decompression)
- Hard disk/RAID
encoded audio, encoded video, raw audio, raw video
- Disc media
CD audio, DVD audio, VCD video, SVCD video, DVD video
- Software
real-time audio generation/effects, real-time video generation/effects
I'd add:
- Metafiles
playlists, meta redirectors (.ASX, .RAM, ...)
- Composite files
things like Flash pages, or some parts of MPEG4 streams that are programmable
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