[gst-devel] GStreamer and gnome 2.2

[Ronald Bultje]

Guys,

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:33, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> 2) Our most-used autoplugger, spider, has MAJOR issues.  Among these are
>    - it locks up when given a file it can't play.  Try playing a text file
>      in gst-player.
>    - sometimes it outright crashes when doing a recursive function nesting
>      because it can't figure out it can't play the file
>    - it is currently unmaintained and Company has been around again but
>      has not himself stated any willingness to work on it after careful
>      prodding on our part ;)
> 
>    ways to fix this :
>    - somebody bites the bullet and investigates the code.  All that needs to be
>      added is an option to spider that tells it how many times it needs to
>      loop the typefind, and set it to default 1.  After that it should
>      send an element error.  Basically ;)

I could kick gst-rec out of my sight for a few weeks and work on this.
Spider is annoying and undocumented and will stay that way until someone
changes it. Someone needs to do it. gst-rec isn't a serious option for
gnome-2.2 anyway, so I can move it long-term for a while.

>    - a static autoplugger; it would use typefind to determine the file type,
>      then replace itself with a static pipeline a la gst-launch-ext.
>      Currently the most feasible option.  Would even be sensible to write
>      a fixed audio-only autoplugger.

bah. ;-).

Ronald