Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I think whatever is done, there needs to be a way for application "foo"
> to play file "ding.wav" without worrying about the intricacies of
> gstreamer. Don't get me wrong, the gstreamer API is great (and really
> powerful) but somewhat complicated when you just want a "alert" sound
> from the speakers.

I can confirm this. I've been trying to use gstreamer to play .ogg sounds 
for gnome-games, but so far gstreamer has been far too complicated to use.
I have still not seen a way to play ogg files using gstreamer in only a 
few lines of code. So this would be very much wanted...

 - Andreas