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Wikiwide	2015-06-14 , 02:27
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Originally Posted by L29Ah

openmediaplayer pulls libplayback which is binary-only. Are there plans to make it work using only open-source deps?

Some links for reverse engineering:

http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-fi...k-1/files.html
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...in#libplayback
https://wiki.maemo.org/Free_Maemo#libplayback
https://wiki.maemo.org/Porting/Audio
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67157

It's a good practice to remain integrated with the operating system, even if there are closed blobs within the OS. Don't like closed-ness of blobs? Reverse engineer them, make them open-source.

Best wishes.

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