Which plug is needed to play ape format audio files?

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 18:34 +0800, Liu bo wrote:

Hi,
 
> > I think this is because it's trying to play the APE file via http
> > in push mode.
> 
> Is it possible to limit gstreamer play APE file via http in pull mode
> instead of push?

It is possible in theory, but it won't work well in practice, not with
GStreamer 0.10 anyway. If you set the "ring-buffer-max-size" property on
playbin2, it will plug a queue2 element between the http source and the
demuxer/parser for certain whitelisted media types. You could add the
APE type(s) to that whitelist, then it might work. *However*, the
problem is that there's an issue with the queue2 and the typefind
element and the ID3/APE tag demuxer, which can lead to deadlocks. This
is fixed in 1.0, but an issue with 0.10.

So in short I don't think it's practical to work around this properly in
0.10, not without fixing the ffmpeg demuxer wrapper to work in push mode
as well.

Cheers
 -Tim
 
> > > Anyone knows which plugin i should use? Thank you.
> > > I can play ape files using gstreamer directly.
> > > # gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/bob/Music/ai.ape
> > 
> > It works fine from local file in pull mode.
> > 
> > I don't know if there's a straight-forward fix to make it work in
> push
> > mode, sorry.
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Bob
> 
> 
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