gstreamer 0.10 backend? & more automation questions

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 05:23, Matt Price wrote:
> 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.
> >

Yes.

> > 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.
>

I updated the documentation for yauap a bit so at least the techies should be 
able to find their way now. Unfortunatelly you will still have to compile 
amarok from svn and pass the --with-yauap commandline switch.

For the non-techies there are some SUSE rpms at
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/faust3/

Regards

Sascha