On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:35:40 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>  Fantastic, we have several people who are interested and I hope willing  
> to play a part in improving Squeak's Multimedia capabilities:
>
>  Blake (Blake: what's your last name?)

Watson

> I looked it up after Martin's email and he's right - multimedia includes  
> a variety of media such as the real-time areas (e.g. film/video, music)  
> as well as static media (e.g. text, graphics.)

Well, y'know, "multimedia" is just a buzzword. (A ten year-old buzzword,  
to boot.) "Multimedia" applies to using several media in one context, like  
an encyclopedia entry on Bach that plays "Cantata no. 157" and shows video  
of his 50th birthday.

Arugably, what we're interested in is A/V support. (Some of us the A, some  
of us the V.<s>)

> For me, I'm obviously interested in only audio and video. I know this is  
> broad, but I just want to get the top level issues out of the way. As an  
> example of elimination, I am not interested in graphics or text.

I wasn't aware Squeak needed much help in the graphics/text area.

> What are your interests?

I'd like to see an equalizer. I think it'd also be cool if Squeak could be  
used to teach orchestration/composition. And video editing. And...<s>

I don't know much about the media formats themselves, though. My  
contributions would most likely be: I can test, I can document, and I can  
build end-user stuff.