[gst-devel] playbin testing

[Josh Coalson]

--- Wim Taymans <wim at fluendo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A quick note on how to test the new playbin. The easiest way is to
> use
> the seek example in gst-plugins/examples/seeking/seek.c. Run it with
> 
> ./seek 11 file:///...
> 
> Note that it currently only accepts URIs and it uses the URI
> infrastructure to locate a plugin that can handle this uri. Seeking
> in
> mpeg, avi, ogg (audio only), mp3 and some other formats should work
> fine, ogg/theora does not work very well. Other stuff like ogg+flac
> and
> ogg files with DirectShow codecs don't seem to work very well.

I'm not sure how FLAC is implemented in gstreamer, but the
next FLAC release will have seeking implemented for Ogg FLAC
(i.e. there are now seekable stream and file decoder and encoder
APIs in libOggFLAC).  It's already in CVS.

Josh



		
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