[gst-devel] gstreamer-properties

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:57, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> <quote who="John Thacker">
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136407
> > 
> > gstreamer-properties doesn't test esdsink correctly.  The default
> > audio test pipeline is just sinesrc ! sink , which doesn't work
> > with esdsink.  This causes gstreamer-properties to produce an error
> > even when esdsink is working.  The right thing to do is to use spider,
> > and change line 34 of gnome-media/gstreamer-properties/pipeline-constants.c
> > from
> 
> I don't know if this is the right way to fix it, since it means that
> applications have to assume that they need to put spider in front of any bin
> that gst-gconf constructs for them in order to play audio. 
> 
> I'm inclined to think that I should change the esdsink to be 'audioconvert !
> audioscale ! esdsink' so that it handles a sensible set of audio formats
> automatically.
> 
> What does everyone else think?

I agree that the gconf key should contain this.  I will change the
defaults as well.  Jan, can you change -properties to do this before it
gets released ?

> 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136406
> 
> gstreamer-properties now uses gst-gconf to get and set the keys. It doesn't
> try and handle parallel installs of gstreamer. I'm not sure how big a flaw
> that is.

I don't consider it a flaw; this is how it should work IMO.  Maybe
version the binary though.

If you need help with any of these two, let me know.

Thomas


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