gstreamer 0.10 backend? & more automation questions

[Colin Guthrie]

Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running amarok 1.4.4 on ubuntu edgy, and have some troubles withmy
> sound card when using the xine engine.  Ive tried exaile outwith
> gstreamer and can see that gstreamer releases my sound card when exaile
> stops playing, so I'd like to try amarok using the gstreamer engine, but
> I see that it's been disabled in ubuntu.  So I wondered what the status
> of the gstreamer backend is; I don't see much about it on the website
> but I did see some mandriva packages on rpmsearch or somewhere &
> wondereed what the chances were of getting those to work with ubuntu.

I don't really know this situation here but I believe the API changed
and there is no maintainter for this code. There may also have been a
licenseing issue involved too.

I beleive someone wrote a yauap engine recently commited which is a
command line, gstreamer 10 based player which is controlled over DBUS by
the amarok engine.

This will almost certainly release the sound card so it may be worth you
playing about with that.

Col.