On Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > > > >I've been warned by a number of Linux folk to avoid GStreamer. > > > > > > Sure, you can avoid Gstreamer, no one will force to use that. What I > am surprised about - and why I write this reply, usually I am in > reading mode of this very useful mailing list - that Gstreamer gets so > much badmouthing not even caring to check out lastest progress. i actually checked out and built SVN before badmouthing it :) the jack sink IS welcomed progress. i think we should all embrace it, as a 'desktop and pro apps can peacefully coexist' solution.. > > About using Gstreamer playing music and watching videos - well, I do > this both home and work, and no gliches, no artifacts, no problems > with Dapper, Edgy and Feisty (Using Gstreamer 0.10 and all aviable > plugins). What I love about Gstreamer is that it brings unified way to > "doing things" in multimedia and and it is very easy to structure how > multimedia works in your application (Pipelines owns). Well, of > course, I can play multimedia also without any Gstreamer, but there > must be some reason why Nokia uses Gstreamer for playing their > multimedia on 770 and N800. Why GNOME uses Gstreamer as backend for > multimedia apps. It is not forced for you to use Gstreamer, but I > would suggest to at least try last stable version to judge it. > Gstreamer0.10 even has pitddl and ffmpeg elements aviable for install > in Ubuntu /Debian repositories for those who wants to use 32-bit dll > hacs or ffmpeg library. > > For one I can agree that Gstreamer came rather long way. It was very > barerly usable for videos with Totem/Gstreamer0.8, and RB had lot of > quirks with migration over Gstreamer0.10. However, this have changed > very much thanks to hard work of community. In fact, it is second most > active community besides JACK. > > So, Gstreamer gets taken seriously more and more each day. It is > suitable for your use? It is your choice. I say - try it, because I > think it is quite changed from the last time guys which gave you their > recomendations tried it. >
