Comments on: GStreamer now available in Mac and Windows nightlies!

By: Avery

Avery — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:30:50 +0000

Why is it not done via about:config? Is this because it needs to be done before the application starts?

By: Miro

Miro — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:44:33 +0000

It would be great if the project could provide separate build of the gstreamer for windows.
The reason is simple: there is no recent GStreamer build for windows, even the upstream seems lazy with this. And this could be useful for many other proejcts/people.

The only difference I see with your GStreamer build is that plugins have “gst” prefix, instead of “libgst” as in the original build.

By: Doug Barnum

Doug Barnum — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:54:57 +0000

Thanks for the info msmith.

By: msmith

msmith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:30:23 +0000

Doug: we actually had nothing to do with the directshow gstreamer source (we did things with the directshow decoder wrappers, and a directshow video sink). We also don’t know much about gstreamer-java (the same goes for the rest of the gstreamer developers too – I don’t think gstreamer-java gets a lot of love).

You should probably ask questions on the gst-devel mailing list – hopefully someone there will know a bit more.

By: Doug Barnum

Doug Barnum — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:58:08 +0000

I had a technical question for the songbird developers, which I hope is OK to ask here.

I’m writing a radio application that I was wondering could use the dshow gstreamer source that I believe exists because the songbird folks have done that work for the gstreamer project.

This application needs to get at capture devices on windows. These devices are TV Tuner PCI/USB that also have a FM tuner. The application is in Java and I would need to use gstreamer-java. This is all simple to do on Linux as v4l/v4l2 is simple and directshow is hard

Of course since I don’t use windows let alone develop on it, I’m biased.

Thanks in advance to any help or advice.

Doug

By: ali rayl

ali rayl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:08:47 +0000

@Ian: We now have an add-on available to tell you which media core you’re using. Check out the link in the “updated” section on this post.

By: raffel

raffel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:24:17 +0000

@boffo
thanks for the kind words, as i said before i’m totally biased but i couldn’t agree with you more on this one!

By: boffo

boffo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:37:21 +0000

Nothing substantive to add, except that I’m very excited about this development. Songbird really seems to be hitting its stride now.

By: ali rayl

ali rayl — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:37:51 +0000

@Cris: GStreamer is going to help Songbird become the really robust, full-featured media player that we want it to be. It will allow us to build all sorts of features, such as gapless playback, visualizations, transcoding, and CD ripping. We don’t know exactly when we’ll get those features implemented, but it’s all on the horizon. We’re looking forward to getting started on it!

By: Cris

Cris — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:25:46 +0000

Love your work guys.

I’d love to see a post about what this move will mean for the product and the end user. better quality? Lower CPU usage? More supported formats?