[gst-devel] Test results from last weekend

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi Darren,

> I tested a bunch of files from  ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/
> with mplayer and gst-player on a freshly installed FC2 box with 
> gstreamer-universe installed.

Welcome aboard ! What prompted you to do this testing ? We have just
started going through all of the MPlayer samples as well, so a bunch of
issues are already fixed in latest CVS.

>  It was interesting to note that most 
> everything failed until after I also applied most of the updates 
> available via up2date as well. You can see in the results table in the 
> attached file after test sample X when I applied the up2date available 
> patches.

I'll take a good look at your table tomorrow.


> I play to do some more testing this weekend so if anyone wants to 
> request a certain set of files to be tested just let me know.

We are in the process of working on the player and trying out some
alternative approaches as well.  If you are running or are able to
install CVS version of gst-plugins, that would help us a lot at this
point since that's where we're fixing all those bugs now.

In CVS, there's also an example program in
gst-plugins/examples/seeking/seek.c.  This example doesn't use the
current autoplugger, spider, but uses a different approach to decode and
play back files.  It would be interesting to see the differences on such
a large number of test files, so you'd do us a great service checking it
out and trying.

The application is started using ./seek 11 file://(path to file)

> The test summary at the bottom of the chart shows gst-player still has a 
> ways to go to catch up with mplayer.

Agreed, which is why we're working on it.

If you have any trouble or questions or whatever during your testing,
let us know.  Also, our FAQ contains entries that you might find useful,
particularly the one explaining how to run a CVS version without messing
up your installed one.

Thanks
Thomas

> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> The version of mplayer used was mplayer-1.0pre4-3.i386.rpm 
> mplayer-common-1.0pre4-3.i386.rpm downloaded from:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
> 
> GStreamer version information is listed at the bottom.
> Is this best source of totem binary rpm's
http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=405

The best source IMO is the ones we have on our site; but freshrpms
should do as well, though they update slightly later.



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