<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Overview</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.66.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="streamtuner Developers Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="streamtuner Developers Manual"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="streamtuner Developers Manual"><link rel="next" href="ch01s02.html" title="Plugins"><meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.2 (XML mode)"><style type="text/css"> .synopsis, .classsynopsis { background: #eeeeee; border: solid 1px #aaaaaa; padding: 0.5em; } .programlisting { background: #feffde; border: solid 1px #e9ed1c; padding: 0.5em; } .variablelist { padding: 4px; margin-left: 3em; } .navigation { background: #daffd1; border: solid 1px #74ff54; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } .navigation a { color: #2fba0f; } .navigation a:visited { color: #22850b; } .navigation .title { font-size: 200%; } </style></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tr valign="middle"><td><a accesskey="p" href="index.html"><img src="left.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td><td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td><th width="100%" align="center">streamtuner Developers Manual</th><td><a accesskey="n" href="ch01s02.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="overview"></a>Overview</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="overview.html#id2533732">Conventions</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01s02.html">Plugins</a></span></dt></dl></div><p> streamtuner provides a framework for implementing stream directory handlers which can be loaded from separate plugins. </p><p> The API is not orthogonal with GObject and could be cleaner, but can nevertheless be used to easily add support for new stream directories to streamtuner. </p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2533732"></a>Conventions</h2></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> Unless noted otherwise, strings passed to functions or used as structure members must be encoded in UTF-8. </p></li><li><p> Unless noted otherwise, strings returned by streamtuner are encoded in UTF-8. </p></li><li><p> Handler callbacks which are susceptible to block the application for a long period will be run in a separate thread of execution. </p></li></ul></div></div></div><table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation footer" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="middle"><td align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html"><b><< streamtuner Developers Manual</b></a></td><td align="right"><a accesskey="n" href="ch01s02.html"><b>Plugins >></b></a></td></tr></table></body></html>