gstreamer 0.10 backend? & more automation questions

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2006-20-12 at 19:36 +0000, paulc2 at optonline.net wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> Why not try helix?  Its very stable, many people use it, and it's
> actually actively maintained (by me).  Just a suggestion...
> 
whew.  trying.  however ubuntu's helix-player seems to be built without
mp3 support.  don't have time to go ack and diagnose that I'm afraid!

thanks though.

matt

> Contrary to popular opinion, there is a gstreamer 0.10 maintainer, and
> it's also me...granted, it would be hard to tell if you're looking at
> my commits, but nonetheless it's not abandoned completely.  It is
> however borked in SVN right now - a change was made sometime in the
> summer in the gstreamer api that the engine doesnt handle.  It is
> however a new years resolution of mine to get it going again (alas, my
> server crashed this week so no chance of meeting your Christmas
> deadline though).
> 
> I havent tried the yauap engine myself, but I suggest you join #amarok
> and ask about trying it - someone there will certainly be able to
> help.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Price 
> Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:23 pm
> Subject: Re: gstreamer 0.10 backend? & more automation questions
> To: Amarok Mailing List 
> 
> > 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 
> > documentationfor 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 
> > lookedat 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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> > University of Toronto
> > matt.price at utoronto.ca
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