[gst-devel] stuff needing to be fixed for Rhythmbox

[Colin Walters]

Hi,

This is just a dump of GStreamer issues that affect Rhythmbox a lot.  I
wish I had time to work on them, but I have my hands full fixing the
many rb bugs...

1) esdsink is broken in 0.6.3:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119155

2) Typefinding still needs to be more reliable.  The buffer size
increase helps, but people still have large data like pictures in their
mp3s.  I think probably what we need is some sort of hinting system. 
Like if filesrc/gnomevfssrc notices the location ends in .mp3, GStreamer
should try *really hard* to use it as an mp3 before giving up.

3) The clock wasn't very reliable either, so we switched to using a
GTimer.  The problem with this obviously is that it's not quite in sync
with gst.

4) gstmad seems to segfault if it has to do a resync:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120125

5) Seeking problems: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120858

6) It would be nice to not have to construct a whole new pipeline for
each file.