Just out of curiosity, why is it you like GStreamer over - say - Helix or Xine?
I've been happy with Xine on my upgraded Amarok (1.4 b1) and really wasn't unhappy with Helix before.
To tell the truth... I'm not really sure :-) Helix worked fine for me.
Know what? One of the other posters reminded me - Helix doesn't do FLAC (which I have many of) at all. Now, I'm happy to be using Xine.
I only stopped using Helix because the latest builds of Amarok 1.4 on apt were not built with Helix support enabled.
Heh, same for me.
I tried using Xine and it would not play MP3s. A friend encountered the exact same thing. Helix was not included... and Xine wouldn't work with MP3s (so I know it wasn't just me).
Um, that is because you need to upgrade the xine. For some reason a chickenshit suit at Novell decided that - to avoid the "potential" for lawsuits - we'd all be inconvinienced and not get MP3 playback (or encoding) in Xine. I'm not quite sure how Novell would get sued for distributing LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) in their product, since every one else in the fscking world does it, but... ...anyway, your solution is to add packman and/or guru to your YaST sources and delete then upgrade Xine to the one provided by them. You also get the added benefit of playing commercial DVDs through Kaffeine, which seems to work better than MPlayer for menus and such.
GStreamer worked... after I installed mad and gstreamer-mad, and then ran the gst updater.
Personally... I'd be fine sticking with Helix if it was included in the Guru (or other) builds of Amarok.
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Xine and it would not play MP3s. A friend encountered the exact same thing. Helix was not included... and Xine wouldn't work with MP3s (so I know it wasn't just me).
Um, that is because you need to upgrade the xine.
Which shows you exactly how often I use Xine. Xine has never been "right" for me. i know it has it's supporters... but it's like Gnome to me... that other player/GUi etc. that I look at once in a while and get annoyed with... and remove/stop using.
You also get the added benefit of playing commercial DVDs through Kaffeine, which seems to work better than MPlayer for menus and such.
Mmm... never ever saw the need to play commercial DVDs on my computer. I have a DVD player/TV for that. DVD players are so cheap they are practically giving them away... my PC is reserved for more important things like playing endless hours of World of Warcraft (using Cedega). :-)
Personally... I'd be fine sticking with Helix if it was included in the Guru (or other) builds of Amarok.
Reason #34453 not to rely on shared libraries outside of your application distribution...grrr...
Honestly... it's never bothered me that much :-) I build my own RPMs from time to time... when the apt version isn't suited to my teastes/preferences. In this case, i knew how to install GStreamer and it'll play everythign I have.. i was more than happy to let Pascal build the 1.4 version of Amarok without Helix <grin> C.
Kai Ponte wrote:
You also get the added benefit of playing commercial DVDs through Kaffeine, which seems to work better than MPlayer for menus and such.
Wrong. You have to upgrade kaffeine, too, at least under SuSE 10. Even if you upgrade xine, kaffeine gives you this 'due to patent regulations' crap if you even try to play a dvd. I am sure that there are kaffeine rpms from packman or similar, though. -Steven
On Monday 06 March 2006 05:59 pm, Steven Pasternak wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
You also get the added benefit of playing commercial DVDs through Kaffeine, which seems to work better than MPlayer for menus and such.
Wrong. You have to upgrade kaffeine, too, at least under SuSE 10. Even if you upgrade xine, kaffeine gives you this 'due to patent regulations' crap if you even try to play a dvd. I am sure that there are kaffeine rpms from packman or similar, though.
Ahh, yes, I forgot that part. Yes, upgrading kaffeine gives DVD playback. I only wanted it because I'm going on a family vacation and the laptop is going to be my DVD player for the car trip. We're bringing Incredibles, Nemo, Humanoids From the Deep-...
-Steven
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