[gst-devel] Gstreamer on Windows XP

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Jeffrey Barish schrieb:
> Tim Müller wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 05:42 -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>>
>>>> There's nothing wrong here, it's just that cdparanoiasrc does not run
>>>> on windows - and so it's not included.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if there's an alternative cd-ripping plugin for windows.
>>>> If there is, you could use that. Otherwise, you will need to write
>>>> one.
>>> (..)
>>>
>>> I found some evidence of an attempt 2 years ago to port Gstreamer to
>>> Cygwin,
>>> but it looks as if that effort aborted.  As cdparanoia will run under
>>> Cygwin, such a port would solve the Windows problem.  Does anyone know
>>> the current status of a Cygwin port?
>>>
>>> It would be helpful if statements that the project has ports to Windows
>>> of base releases (such as the one on this page:
>>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/) included the qualification
>>> that the port does not include cdparanoiasrc.
>> The libcdio-based cdiocddasrc in gst-plugins-good should work on windows
>> (not ideal for ripping though, since it doesn't any kind of
>> sophisticated error correction). However, you might be able to link
>> cdparanoiasrc in -base against the libcdio-based cdparanoia that's
>> included in libcdio. I think it provides an API compatible wrapper.
>> (Mind you, libcdio is GPL not LGPL though.)
> 
> My current thought is that I will execute a command from my program that
> runs cdparanoia and pipes its output to an encoder.  I would have preferred
> to use GStreamer, though.

Then I encourrage you to give a try to what tim suggested to you. Those things 
don't happen on its own :)

Stefan