Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

["Olafur Arason" <olafra gmail com>]

Here is a version that you can copy and paste:
#include <gst/gst.h>

gint
gnome_play_sound_background (
     gchar *uri)
{
 GMainLoop *loop;
 GstElement *play;
 GstBus *bus;

 /* init GStreamer */
 gst_init (0 ,NULL);
 loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);

 /* set up */
 play = gst_element_factory_make ("playbin", "play");
 g_object_set (G_OBJECT (play), "uri", uri, NULL);

 bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (play));
 gst_object_unref (bus);

 gst_element_set_state (play, GST_STATE_PLAYING);

 /* now run */
 g_main_loop_run (loop);

 /* also clean up */
 gst_element_set_state (play, GST_STATE_NULL);
 gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (play));

 return 0;
}

int
main (int   argc,
     char *argv[])
{
 if (argc != 2) {
   g_print ("Usage: %s <URI>\n", argv[0]);
   return -1;
 }

 gnome_play_sound_background(argv[1]);

 return 0;
}

And it works

Olafur Arason

On 10/30/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:05 +0000, Olafur Arason wrote:
> > Doesn't this work?
> > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-components.html
>
> I'm sure it does, but it's a lot more complicated than the hypothetical:
>
> gnome_play_sound_background ("alert.wav");
>
> Richard.