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New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2004-10-06 12:32. GStreamer
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As many of you know Fluendo is paying Ronald Bultje to work fulltime on fixing GStreamer playback issues at the moment. The goal is to make Totem and GStreamer the best video player for Linux and Unix. Ronald have been fixing tons of bugs and Wim Taymans have also chipped in to fix a lot of playback bugs. These two releases, of GStreamer core and GStreamer plugins, contains all the bugfixes so far. Ronald will continue working on improving playback but we hope the community will help us by testing these releases and providing bugzilla reports with files attached of files still giving you issues. Of course patches never hurt either :)So check out the release notes and grab the tarballs and start testing.

Download instructions and release notes for GStreamer 0.8.7

Download instructions and release notes for GStreamer-plugins 0.8.5.

You need latest Totem version 0.99.17 to test as this contains some extremely important updates to its GStreamer backend.

With the fixes in this release and those who come as a result of testing done by the community based on these releases, the goal is to switch Totem over to using GStreamer as its default backend for one of its future releases.

P.S. For testing non-free formats you need a new release of gstreamer-ffmpeg package. This will be released on thursday (tommorow).

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Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by Anonymous George
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by nullity
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by chtephan
Will Totem now be able to play encrypted dvd's? by Anonymous George
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by Theo
I've never liked Totem with GStreamer backend.. by WareKala
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by Nadir
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by Ploum

GStreamer Xine plugin

Submitted by waschk on Thu, 2004-10-07 09:18.

I don't know about mplayer support, but there's a xine plugin in gst-plugins. I haven't tried it yet, it's also disabled by default which is a bad sign.

Re: GStreamer Xine plugin by Anonymous George

Re: GStreamer Xine plugin

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Fri, 2004-10-08 11:38.

It isn't.

Re: GStreamer Xine plugin by Anonymous George
Re: GStreamer Xine plugin by Anonymous George
Re: GStreamer Xine plugin by Anonymous George
Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins by Anonymous George
Totem, GStreamer & Xine by Anonymous George
Re: Totem, GStreamer & Xine by Anonymous George

Re: Totem, GStreamer & Xine

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2004-10-06 14:32.

This is the reason we are paying Ronald to fix GStreamer and Totem in regards to using GStreamer. Hopefully after this release you will see an improvement. (If not I guess we need to take Ronald's salary away :)

Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

Submitted by Nadir on Thu, 2004-10-07 00:37.

Mplayer and DVD navigation is a laughable combination.

Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Fri, 2004-10-08 11:35.

I don't crawl at a terminal window. I associate AVI files with mplayer, so when I doubleclick on them in Nautilus I'll get a nice video window. No menubar or controls - but I don't need them or want them, I only want the video. Using the keyboard to navigate (space = pause, q = quit, f = fullscreen, arrow keys = fast forward/backwards) is much faster than using the mouse.

The interesting thing about GStreamer is that it's a multimedia framework. When it's finished, good multimedia apps can be written. Right now, all the multimedia apps out there duplicate each others' code (AVI parsers, codecs, and what not). This while Windows has got many free (open source!) video editing/encoding tools, because they can use DirectShow.