Re: Quite off topic : Gstreamer view (was Re: more eel cleanup)

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Bertrand <anneetbertrand gnome org> said:
> 
> I hope this will be a great view but...
> I tried sometimes ago to compile gstreamer-0.4.0 (the view is in 0.4.2, 
> isn't it ?) on my PPC computer, It's a real great project. And it's a 
> real heavy pain ; it depends on so much libraries.
> But there is worst : it depends on libraries  like Avifile that won't 
> compile on PPC (will it ?) ! This is a real portability problem for 
> gstreamer and nautilus. I had to disable the half of the plugins 
> compilation...
> And after the compilation, it wasn't even able to read .wav files 
> because of - I suppose - endian problems.
> 
> So :  isn't it a bit early to switch the music view into a gstreamer 
> view ?
> 

The old view was mp3 dependent which could have led to some patent issues 
(for instance redhat did not ship it with redhat 8). You should be able to 
build gstreamer independent of the specific plugins, and the gstreamer guys 
are now distributing rpms and debs so installation for most users should be 
pretty easy.

Keep in mind this change will have absolutely no effect on nautilus itself as 
nautilus-media is a seperate independent package. Nautilus is not dependent 
on gstreamer yet.

dave