Re: My take on Totem and GStreamer

[Diego González <diego pemas net>]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:08, 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.
> 
totem using the gstreamer backend doesn't play a lot of divx, well it
does, but you only see rubbish, i was told that this is due to the
version of ffmpeg that gstreamer is using. The GStreamer guys should
consider updating the version if totem is going to be included.

> I would be happy to fix a lot of stuff there if they are easy fix bug with libgstplay.
> 
> Cheers