On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:17 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > The question is though: how useful is the HelixPlayer engine in practice? > > It works pretty well here, reading ogg vorbis files. I don't know how to add > mp3 support to Helix, but there is still the possibility to get the xine > engine from /somewhere else/. Since without this additional repo you > wouldn't be able to read mp3 files anyway, I think it's not a problem. > > If you suggest I should add back gst10 on all archs, I'd rather follow the > dev's opinion on the maturity of this engine, unless I have no other choice > (as on x86_64). Having no streaming support without warning with gst10 > surprised me a lot, and will probably be the source of many bug reports. Reviving this thread since people are discussing it on irc: Maybe there is value in having an amarok-gst10 and a amarok-helix? gst10 seems to be the only way anyone will get mp3 support without a recompile. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
