[Fwd: Re: Gstreamer support in Amarok]

[Paul Cifarelli]

thought some on the list might be interested in our investigation.  the 
same gst10 engine does not work with gstreamer 0.10.8


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Subject: Re: Gstreamer support in Amarok
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:14:11 -0500
From: simotsa at gmail.com
To: Paul Cifarelli <paul at cifarelli.net>
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Thank you so much.  gst10-engine now shows up in my engine configuration
window.  It is working flawlessly for me with gstreamer-0.10.4.

Thanks.

On 1/4/07, Paul Cifarelli <paul at cifarelli.net> wrote:
>
> oops, I forgot one step.
>
> in amarok/src/engine/gst10 there is a file -
> amarok_gst10engine_plugin.desktop
>
> edit this file, find (near the end of the file)
>
> X-KDE-amaroK-rank=0
>
> change to anything non-zero, then make install again, restart and you'll
> find it.
>
> I am aware that it was working before - sometime around June or July I
> updated gstreamer and it stopped working.  I've not put much time into
> it recently, but I believe 0.10.4 would have worked.
>
> simotsa at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > I was using gstreamer-0.10.4 and gstreamer-0.10.3 before that.  The
> source
> > code for amarok-1.4_beta3 is not available for download anymore, so I
> > cannot
> > compile it again.  I know it works fine because that's what I use in my
> > production server, but no source code >_<.
> >
> > Regarding amarok-svn, I can compile gst10-engine now, but it wouldn't
> show
> > up in amarok.  How can I make amarok detect the engine?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wai
> >
> > On 1/4/07, Paul Cifarelli <paul at cifarelli.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Most likely it's because you have older versions of the gstreamer base
> >> and plugins.  It would be interesting, however, if you could try
> >> installing 1.4.4 and seeing if it still works - that would pretty much
> >> verfiy that the problem is with a recent gstreamer or in the amarok
> >> engine itself.
> >>
> >> In the meanwhile I'll try to do the same with 1.4beta3
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> simotsa at gmail.com wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the instruction.  However, gstreamer works just fine on
> >> > Amarok-1.4-beta3.  Did Amarok changed something that makes it unable
> to
> >> > work
> >> > anymore?  I don't have working experience with programming, but if I
> >> know
> >> > what changes must be made, I could help.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Wai
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
>

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