Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 schrieb Frederic Crozat: > Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 ? 11:59 +0300, Eero Tamminen a ?crit : > > So, there shouldn't be any need for any Maemo specific specs, these > > things are documented in upstream projects. There should still be > > a tutorial how to do these things though. > > Tutorial is already available in Maemo 3.x SDK documentation, but we > aren't sure it is working as expected, because of mediaplayer > "blackbox". > > > If there are still some problems after codec has been > > correctly registered to gstreamer and mime-type database: > > - gstreamer not recognizing the file type correctly > > I don't think it is the case, using : > > gst-launcher filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! > dsppcmsink does work, so gstreamer is handling the file correctly. > We are spinning in circles. We have been there too many times already! > > - mediaplayer not playing the file > > I think the problem is here, unfortunately :( > > Developper documentation is a little too scarce about media player, > unfortunately.> . Unfortunately. Am I wrong when I identify the missing source of the media player as part of the problem? Or has it been released yet? > > > - file manager or browser not launching the media player properly > > This part works fine, mediaplayer is launched properly > > > Please file bugs. <sarcasm> Like Bug 176, opened 2005-10-30? https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176 </sarcasm> > > Before filling bugs against maemo, I think it would be better to only > have "one" ogg support package available for 770 / n800 (and soon n810) > to make sure efforts are not duplicated. Yepp! Convergence instead of parallel efforts! Time to puzzle should be over in order to mature this platform. > > As a sidenote, from my distribution persective (I'm GNOME maintainer at > Mandriva), Maemo community "fragmentation" about packages and duplicated > work is killing me :( There seems to be a lot of energy around there but > often doing the thing or not using infrastructure available thanks to > Garage (for instance, some people are only using garage as a way to ship > files and don't store their source code in SVN). I have been wondering that as well many times. How come that this community is 'fragmented'? What is causing it? Regards Krischan
