On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 22:34 -0500, carmen wrote: > > >it solves a number of problems that nobody > > >else has bothered to solve. > > > > Like what? I play media stuff of all kinds without GStreamer even installed. > > what happens when your card doesn't have dmix, and gstreamer is > already playing a stream at 48khz to hw:0,1, and another app wants to > play a 44.1 khz beep to the same output. does it via some mutex/IPC > magic switch over to software mixing the two streams, without > requiring a resident sound daemon? if so, i'd consider that a solved > problem that nobody else wanted to tackle.. gstreamer doesn't solve that problem. far from it. other than the fact that it can talk to some audio sinks that do solve it. the kinds of problem i am referring to have to do mostly with complex sync cases when an app is playing two streams (e.g. video + audio) and needs to maintain careful sync no matter what the downstream data pathway looks like. also, it has some abilities to split and recombine data streams in ways that are not useful for everyday use but can be very handy in a toolbox.finally, the existence of *legal* MP3 codecs for gst from fluendo (with other codecs to come) should not be overlooked. i am by no means a gstreamer fanboy, but i do think that the gst architecture has evolved over quite a significant period to be able to do things that, AFAIK, no other media framework on linux does. --p
