Totem/GStreamer and Fedora

[Michael A. Peters]

On 10/06/2004 02:10:07 PM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:

> 
> How would you guys feel about including this in Fedora Core? It would
> add a missing piece to the desktop. We're also considering to propose
> Totem for inclusion in GNOME 2.10.

YES!!
I'm using totem-gstreamer now on FC2 (0.99.16) and it isn't perfect,  
there have been files it won't play that gst-launch-ext will play, but  
it is quite good.

Playing divx was as simple as installing the gstreamer-ffmpeg from  
livna, installing the current divx4linux (which wants compat-libstdc++  
for those who download the free library from divx.com) and then  
building the divx4linux plugin for gstreamer.

GStreamer is definitely the missing piece of the puzzle in Gnome  
multimedia - since it provides a good plugin framework that allow  
installation of proprietary plugins without needing to recompile your  
software against it.

The HD divx trailer for SharkTail does better in my totem-gstreamer  
build than it does in Win XP on the same hardware. (it will play  
smoothly in XP if you don't do anything else - but it plays smooth in  
gstreamer regardless)

I was planning to host a small yum repository for totem-gstreamer with  
some plugins that livna/fedora stable doesn't provide - but if totem- 
gstreamer makes it into Fedora Core (or even Fedora Stable) I only will  
need to provide some of the video plugins.

Got a Creative dxr3? The gstreamer plugin builds just fine - I haven't  
tried it yet (I don't have the card, but I'm getting off of eBay) - no  
need to rebuild your xine backend to link against their user space lib  
for totem to use that card, just install the plugin and you're gold.  
Well, theoretically.

But yes - I'm all for totem-gstreamer even if the xine backend is a  
little better. GStreamer is the way to do things.

Now if someone would port Audacity to GStreamer - and sox (gsox ??) ...