Request for support of Gstreamer 1.x integration into Enigma2 powering Linux set-top boxes

[Lukas Bauer]

Request for support of Gstreamer 1.x integration into Enigma2 powering 
Linux set-top boxes


Dear Gstreamer team,


I'm Lukas from Germany, Enigma2 developer and a moderator at openATV, 
one of several teams making software for Linux based set-top boxes.


Enigma2, the GUI of such boxes, was originally an open source project of 
Dream Multimedia who sell the "Dreambox". Since November 2011, Dream 
Multimedia have continued their internal development on a "closed 
source" basis, while the old free sources have been developed further by 
others. Today at least 20 teams, some organized in the "OE-Alliance", 
are building images for ~100 third-party set-top boxes from ~40 vendors 
based on that open source code.


You probably know that Enigma2 is using Gstreamer. However, while Dream 
Multimedia might be using Gstreamer 1.x by now, the open source 
development is stuck at version 0.1. As you can imagine, currently even 
cheap commercial media players are outperforming Enigma2 with respect to 
features and stability. Even some basics, like rewinding mkv files, have 
never been working. With some workarounds, like jumping instead of 
rewinding, media playback is usable but nothing to be proud of.


In the last 1 or 2 years, there has been some activity at openPLI about 
integrating Gstreamer 1.x.Today there are bitbakes, but also issues, 
e.g. some audio not playing, progress bar running too fast, subtitles 
not working, etc.. Our branch using Gstreamer 1.x is not officially 
released yet, and progress is slow or stalled.

That's why I'm contacting you now, asking for support or rather for a 
cooperation. Some people at openPLI have already tried to convince a box 
manufacturer to hire or pay some members of your team for the job of 
integrating Gstreamer 1.x into Enigma2, but the response was negative. 
It is sad but understandable that no manufacturer likes to pay for the 
benefit of all. Unfortunately also our teams have poor funding, team 
members are working for free, and I'm afraid we cannot offer payment. 
What we can offer is placing a set-top box at disposal which a person 
helping us could keep in case of success, and of course there would be 
people available at our side for support, including a colleague from 
openPLI who has been working on the Gstreamer 1.x integration.


Please let me know if you see a chance of helping us, or whom I should 
contact about this. I've also seen that "GStreamer on embedded systems, 
set-top boxes" is on the agenda of the GStreamer Conference on 16-17 
October 2014. Maybe someone could bring up my request there?


Thank you very much and kind regards

Lukas "Fischreiher" Bauer

http://www.opena.tv

lukas.bauer.openatv at web.de <mailto:lukas.bauer.openatv at web.de>



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