Re: Totem with GStreamer backend

[Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte electronic-group com>]

Yes exotic formats are not very well supported yet..

This will change as we are integrating latest ffmpeg codecs in the 0_7
branch..

Thanks for your feedback :-)

Cheers

Dolphy

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:56, Ramanan V wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using totem built from scratch through garnome(0.25.1) on an rh8.0 
> box. This would mean gst 0.6.2 and totem 0.99.2. Formats with (native 
> and stable linux support?) such as .mpg , .mp3 , .ogg , .avi etc. play 
> fine. However , it barfs on quicktime files(matrix reloaded , for 
> reference). Also , its unable to open .dat files from ripped vcds. If 
> its any help , here is the message at tthe terminal for .mov:
> 
> ** Message: open 
> file:///home/krosstok/Multimedia/Video/matrix٪20reloaded٪20trailer.mov
> video_queue: waiting for the app to restart source pad elements
> 
> 
> For .dat , theres no error message - or video , or sound for that matter.
> 
> Pipelines used: Audio - ESD
> Video - Xv
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ramanan
> 
> 
> 
> >>On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:44, Julien MOUTTE wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi Gnomers :)
> >>>
> >>>For those of you running a RedHat 9 system you can now try very easily
> >>>Totem video player with GStreamer backend thanks to Matthias SAOU
> >>>(http://freshrpms.net) who made some nice packages...
> >>>
> >>>They are available through apt or http://shrike.freshrpms.net/
> >>>
> >>>There is a wrapper script so that you can force using xine backend
> >>>version if you want.
> >>>
> >>>Feedback highly appreciated,
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I'm afraid I can't get any movie to work. Totem hangs shortly after I
> >>press play.
> >>
> >>    
> >>