[Kamoso] Re: Kamoso-Gstreamer is ready for master

[George Kiagiadakis]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Alex Fiestas <alex at eyeos.org> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> After a few more hours of hacking, I think that Kamoso-Gstreamer is ready to
> being developed in master. It is by far more stable than the current libvlc
> implementation although it is still a Proof of Concept.
>
> What is working:
>        -Take pictures
>        -Record video
>        -Youtube uploading
>        -Video controls

Cool! Go for it.
(I wonder how crappy can libvlc be to be unable to do these correctly)

> What is not working:
>        -We're assuming that PulseAudio is running [0]

You could have a look at my PhononIntegration class from
telepathy-call-ui that uses the following algorithm:
- If running on KDE:
  - Use pulseaudio if available
  - Else try alsa/oss following phonon's preferences
  - Else fall back to autoaudiosrc/autoaudiosink
- Else if running on gnome:
  - Use gconfaudiosrc/gconfaudiosink

>        -We're not using the "GStreamer way" of doing things [1]

I could have a look at that as soon as I have some time to see if I
can make it work without resetting the pipeline.

> Also, I'd like to use this email to ask permission to public a post in my blog
> about the new Kamoso, and about the collaboration with QtGstreamer project.

Ask permission? :P
It's not a secret project, you can blog about it without asking for
permission...

> What do you think about both points?
>
> [0]: Is really easy to fix, I will do it ASAP (probably when I wake up)
> [1]: Right now we're resetting the "player/pipeline" when recording video.
> This is an inheritance of the vlc implementation, but well, it works :p

Regards,
George