Re: My take on Totem and GStreamer

[Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte electronic-group com>]

> 
> * As hadess said there is no error handling. Three of my videos use
> an audio codec not supported by gstreamer. Totem just crashed when I
> tried to play them.
> 
> * Totem's nice properties dialog is useless as there is no codec
> information is displayed. It'd be great to get this working.
> 
> * It's a lot slower than the xine backend. It takes a while to start a
> video, and sometimes the audio starts first, and the ui goes
> unresponsive for a few seconds, then the video starts.


I think i can fix those 3 points in 0.6.2

Our biggest issue for the moment is the autoplugger element named "spider" which is a bit obscure and i would have to dig inside so that it throws infos on the codec it uses for playback and correct error reports.

> One thing though: If we do ship totem with the gstreamer backend we
> should remove the dvd menu items if that functionality doens't work.

Yup to have easy dvd support we would have to find a library much more friendly than libdvdread which requires a lot of code in the application itself compared to xine-lib APIs.

> I'm gonna go try out gstreamer 0.6.2 from cvs, but it does seem to me
> that most of the important work needs to be done on the totem side -
> adding support for more codecs can be done any time...

The big job is in spider and small one in libgstplay, totem's bacon_video_widget handles the stuff correctly.

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