Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] metadata reader using decodebin

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org>]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:22:01PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le lundi 02 mai 2005 ?? 22:20 +1000, Jonathan Matthew a ??crit :
> 
> > 
> > What advantages would using playbin provide?  I'm not really sure what
> > it does that decodebin doesn't.
> 
> The only advantage would probably be simpler code (though I haven't
> looked at yours), playbin uses decodebin internally so it's not a big
> difference. Afaik totem can read tags and it uses playbin/decodebin, did
> you look how they do it?

Totem doesn't try to find the MIME type for the file, which is what I
couldn't do with playbin.  Could always do that separately, but ..
there goes the idea of having simpler code.

-jonathan