[gst-devel] Status of CVS version?

[Wim Taymans]

On 23 Apr 2001 10:56:19 -0700, Steve Brown wrote:
> I'm new to gstreamer and am trying to become familiar with it. The
> architecture, documentation, debugging facilities and development tool
> make it very compelling.
> 
> Could somebody comment on the status of the following? The archives
> didn't help me much.
> 
> Status of gstmediaplayer?
>     For me, it plays .mp3 files, but seg faults on unencrypted .vob's.
> Vers 0.1.1 plays them, but with sporadic audio.

Make sure you have an Xv enabled Xfree (>=4.0.2) or the Hermes library.
alsa make sure you have libmpeg2. gstmediaplay is known to crash when
pressing stop or at the end of file.

Current CVS has a completely rewritten type negotiation system which
will require a couple more rewrites before it actually works...

I always test avi (divx, mjpeg), mpeg1 (video/system), mpeg2, vorbis and
mp3 with gstmediaplay so at least those formats should work.

> 
> Status of alsasink?
>     For me, it crashes during initialization.

I hasn't been updated in a while. I have not been able to get ALSA in a
working state on my machine so I can't comment on its functionality. 

> 
> Status of editor?
>     For me, on loading, it complains of lots of missing signal handlers
> (i.e on_about_activate). This is all stuff I'd expect to see in the
> glade-generated callbacks.c, but there isn't any. After loading, it
> doesn't appear functional.

The callbacks simply aren't implemented yet but cause no harm otherwise.
try creating a thread and dropping a disksrc, mad mp3 decoder and an
audiosink in it. You should be able to play an mp3 then.

> 
> Status of the stuff in test/ ? Especially, mpeg2parse and mpeg2parse2

mpeg2parse2 works on my machine. Most of the other test apps are
unmaintained and are probably broken.

> 
> If somebody could confirm that these are known to work (or not to
> work),  I'll go back and try to figure out what I did wrong in the
> install. As recommended, I haven't done a "make install" and am running
> everything from the build directories.

That's good. can you verify that configure.in finds all the required
dependencies. If it still doesn't work, feel free to jump into IRC or
post a --gst-debug-mask=-1 trace of the failing program. also run
gstreamer-register before running an app.


Wim

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> Thanks,
> Steve
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