[gcompris-devel] bug in 8.4.2 version

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007 à 21:40 +0100, José JORGE a écrit :
> activity reading/click_on_letter : the sound of the letters is not possible to 
> be heard (only half of the sound is played). Looks like the very short ogg 
> files are badly played by gstreamer-0.10. 

Yes, I confirm the issue. Same issue on gutsy which also ship gstreamer
0.10.14. This version is considered the stable release by gstreamer
themselves : http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

> Converting files to wav, even keeping the .ogg extension solved the problem 
> for me. But we really need a good way to play sounds for all. Bruno, I know 
> you worked hard on voices to gain space, but maybe we should switch every 
> short sounds (letters and numbers at least) to wav?

We could do that but by the time we do it, make a new release, have the
packager ship it, this will maybe no more an issue.

I went on #gstreamer and got this anwser:
<__tim> bdoin: yes, fixed in the upcoming core/base 0.10.15 releases
(out tomorrow probably)
<thayta1> out in about an hour

The bug is:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466717

> At least Mandriva 2008.0 is bringing gstreamer based gcompris, and so a big 
> problem on sounds...

I understand, we have to see if they can upgrade to this new gstreamer
release.

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Bruno Coudoin
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