[gst-devel] Test results from last weekend

[Darren Blaser]

 >>What prompted you to do this testing ?
I've been happily using linux for several years now but haven't felt 
like I've given as much back to the community as I'd like too, so for 
some time now I've been watching for a project that both interests me 
and that felt I could contribute too. When I saw Ronalds call for 
testing on the developers mailing list a little while ago I thought - 
"Hey that's definitely something I can do!" and to be quite frank most 
of the developers working on gstreamer just seem to be generally very 
nice and helpful people, which is the kind of folks I like to hang out 
with. So gstreamer seems like a good place for me...

Also, I think it's important to have free as in "libre" software 
available which will allow people to do some basic video recording, 
editing and playing and this seems to be the best media project going 
which is directly pursuing that IMHO.

 >>install CVS version of gst-plugins,
I actually spent most of the weekend downloading additional samples from 
the MPlayer site. I have more than two CD's full of samples now...

 >>our FAQ contains ...explaining how to run a CVS version without 
messing up your installed one.
I assume you mean:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-developing.html#developing-uninstalled-gstreamer
I'm hoping that I'll have time on Wed or Thursday of this week do the 
entire cvs respository checkout and to try running a cvs version of gst. 
Thanks for the tip.




Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

>Hi Darren,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>> 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.
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>I'll take a good look at your table tomorrow.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>The application is started using ./seek 11 file://(path to file)
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>>The test summary at the bottom of the chart shows gst-player still has a 
>>ways to go to catch up with mplayer.
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>Agreed, which is why we're working on it.
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>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.
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>Thanks
>Thomas
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>>Thanks.
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>>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
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>>GStreamer version information is listed at the bottom.
>>Is this best source of totem binary rpm's
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>http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=405
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>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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