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New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2004-10-06 12:32. GStreamer

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).

I've never liked Totem with GStreamer backend..

Submitted by WareKala on Thu, 2004-10-07 03:52.

...but why? Well, for some reason, when Totem is using gstreamer backend, I end up getting no thumbnails for any video files I have, but with xine backend I do. But is it totem which doesn't utilize gstreamer correctly or is it gstreamer which doesn't work? And atleast for me Totem seems to crash quite often with gstreamer. Oh, and as a whole lot of people seem to be comparing mplayer and totem, well, I have to also agree that mplayer is much better, atleast what comes to playing broken/b0rked files. Totem should also do index-table rebuilding on broken files/files which don't have any. Then I might already start thinking about using it. Though I don't know does it support subtitle-files.

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