retitle 294490 please recommend/suggest gnome-media as a graphical
configuration interface
reassign 294490 gst-plugins0.8
thanks
Hi,
Daniel Franganillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Thu, Feb 10, 2005:
> Thanks, it solved the problem. But, how about recommending
> gnome-media? , or else adding rhythmbox an option to change gstreamer
> output?
I am not sure GStreamer can "Recommend" gnome-media, it adds a fair
amount of dependencies to one's system, but it doesn't seem to pull in
the whole GNOME desktop.
The basic problem is Debian doesn't ship esound by default, but GNOME
pulls it in (so that concurrent apps can play sound). The only thing
you should expect when writing an application that produces sound is
the presence of OSS (something like sending raw sound to /dev/dsp)
because:
- 2.4 is the default kernel series for Debian Sarge (doesn't support
ALSA natively, even if we ship ALSA modules separately),
- 2.6 supports only ALSA, but ALSA provides OSS emulation.
The default audiosink in GStreamer is hence "osssink", but under GNOME,
it would be nice if it could be esdsink.
The best fix would be to auto-detect whether we can use esdsink or
artsdsink or any other high level sink, and fall back on lower level
sink, such as alsasink, and finally try osssink.
First, this doesn't exist (but attempts have been made at writing
something like this). Second, this would pull in dependencies on all
the available sound daemons or output drivers.
What we can theoritically do right now is try in applications to do the
checking I mentionned, and try esdsink, then alsasink, then osssink
etc., but that has the same dependencies problem, and it's an useless
burden for applications writers.
Regards,
PS: I am reassigning the bug to gst-plugins0.8.
--
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
