Re: My take on Totem and GStreamer

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 06:53, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:08, Julien MOUTTE wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > I've already done a big part of backend porting in Totem for
> GStreamer.
> > 
> > As soon as GStreamer core version 0.6.2 will be out it will be really
> stable and support lot of medias.
> > 
> > IMHO the only big feature which is not in gst enabled totem is DVD
> playback. And that will be a tough one if we are willing to do it
> correctly.
> > 
> > I would be really interested to get feedback from people using totem
> with gstreamer backend to see what's missing in that port.
> 
> Error handling!!!
> 
> It's the single most important thing that's missing (apart from support
> for more codecs/file types, and general "it crashes" fixes, obviously.

The lack of error handling has probably been the single biggest
usability brokenness of Linux video players... and totem is just so much
better in this department. Kudos to Hadess.