Re: [Banshee-List] passing options to gstreamer

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Just glancing through the document you linked me, it seems you should be
setting "device=dmix" on the alsasink element in your custom audio sink
pipeline...

--Aaron


On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:33 -0800, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
> Heh, I should have posted this initially as well it would seem.  Here
> is the complete gst-launch line:
> gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=/path/to/file.mp3 ! mad ! alsasink period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096
> So the options I would like to pass to gstreamer are,
> "period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096".  Is there a way I can make a
> custom sink by cloning the alsasink and appending these options?  Then
> I could select it using gstreamer-properties.
> Thanks,
> Benj
> 
>  Edward Catmur <ed catmur co uk> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:07 -0800, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
>         > Thanks, I should have mentioned that originally. I used
>         > gstreamer-properties to set the default sink to ALSA prior
>         to doing
>         > any of this command line stuff, so that has been done
>         already.
>         
>         What HOWTO are you trying to follow? What are you trying to
>         accomplish?
>         What is the gst-launch line you use?
>         
>         Ed
>         
>         > Edward Catmur  wrote:
>         > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:52 -0800, Benj FitzPatrick wrote:
>         > > Hi,
>         > > I like banshee but unfortunately gstreamer does not work
>         > nicely with
>         > > alsa and my audio card (it is very choppy). I found a
>         gentoo
>         > howto
>         > > that gives me a fix for gstreamer when I use gst-launch,
>         but
>         > it
>         > > involves passing some extra arguments. Is there a way I
>         can
>         > have
>         > > banshee (or gnome or gstreamer) load these arguments every
>         > time
>         > > gstreamer is run?
>         > 
>         > Try editing the default audio sink in gstreamer-properties.
>         > 
>         > Ed
>         > 
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