Re: [gst-devel] Totem or no Totem was Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: "Mighty Atom"

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 15:11, iain wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 13:22, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> 
> > Some people actually want to watch movies.. my success rate with
> > gst-player has been below 0 zero far, while with Totem I have been
> > playing my movies for months now without any problems.
> 
> Conversely...I have been watching movies for many months with
> gst-player, and I've just installed totem and haven't had any luck at
> all, some movies play for a few seconds and stop, some don't play at
> all, and none of them have any sound[1].

I'd like to know why it doesn't work. If you want, we can spend some
time trying to fix it.

> So, my anecdotal evidence cancels out your anecdotal evidence and we're
> back to square one.

If gst-player works fine for you, good, keep on using it. 

> iain

> [1] Not that I expected it did, as my sound card has some quirks that
> 99% of things need to be resampled to 48000 before they'll play, but
> hey, the wonders of autoconfiguration over having a gconf key that I can
> add audioscale frequency=48000 ! to so that it works...

If the driver is broken, the driver should be fixed, really. You can
force the sample rate with:
audio.force_rate:48000 in ~/.gnome2/totem_config

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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