gstreamer 0.10 backend? & more automation questions

[Matt Price]

On Tue, 2006-19-12 at 23:57 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 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, thanks for the tip.  hunting around I don't see much documentation
for yauap and wondered what I'm going to need to build this.  WIll I
need to build all of amarok from source -- from svn probably?  I looked
at the yauap source and there isn't even an INSTALL document...  THis is
for a xhristmas present for non-techies so perhaps I will have to make
do without it.

anyway thanks.

matt


> Col.
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Matt Price
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