Re: What use is gstreamer?
On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Provocative question, I realize.
>
> But here's why I ask:
>
> totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what
> plugins I added, it just played the first track. So, I switched to
> totem-xine, and it handled them perfectly.
>
> Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp
> (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The totem
> (now -xine) movie player handles it very nicely, although I really
> don't need the rather cool visualization!
>
> I LIKE Rhythmbox - is there something I'm missing (although I think
> I've installed all the gstreamer plugins there are) to have it play my
> favorite radio station (WRFG)?
>
> Patrick
Hi Patrick. I've played about a bit with Rhythmbox/gstreamer today to try to
resolve your problem with accessing streams from http://www.wrfg.org.
Anyway this is how it went. I use KDE on Lenny, and other distros. Rhythmbox
was not installed, so I installed it, and it pulled in a load of deps. I've
attached the history file for what was installed below.
Started Rhythmbox, and added new radio station with
http://wrfg.org/listen.asp. No joy with that though, as we know.
Now I have the debian-multimedia repo in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and
synaptic showed 2 versions of the ffmpeg package available. The installed one
was from the Debian repo, and the other named "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-full" was
from Christian Marillats debian-multimedia repo. I removed the installed one,
installed the one from Debian-multimedia, then tried
http://wrfg.org/listen.asp again. Still no joy.
Not being one to give up, I opened Firefox. Now when I installed Rhythmbox it
had also installed a load of Totem plugins, and I know these like to take
first place when you want to play any streams in Firefox. Typing
about:plugins in Firefox confirmed that along with the Mplayerplug-in stuff,
there were now a load of Totem plugins. So I type in the URL
http://www.wrfg.org, click on "listen live", and a window opens, saying the
following.
<quote>
you have chosen to open
listen.pls
which is a: MP3 ShoutCast playlist
from: http://streaming.wrfg.org
And with the default application to play this being "Movie Player"
<end quote>
Ok, I go for the default, and amazingly Totem gstreamer for the first time
that I can remember actually plays something, and says it's getting it from:
streaming.wrfg.org:80.
Clearly the codecs are there for gstreamer to play streams from the site, as
totem/gstreamer is working.
Now to try Rhythmbox again. Very doubtfull, I click on "New Internet Radio
Station", and add http://streaming.wrfg.org. Double click on the new entry,
and Bingo! The stream plays. It's a bit stuttery as I'm on dialup, but the
other night on Firefox there were no stutters, but at least the site is
working with Rhythmbox/gstreamer, for me at least.
Feedback requested, if you get it to stream ok.
Nigel.
File attached below for the stuff that apt-get install rhythmbox installed as
deps.
djmons@debian:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/djmons# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following packages have been kept back:
libtunepimp5 zynaddsubfx
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
debian:/home/djmons# apt-get install rhythmbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libmtp6 libsigc++-2.0-dev libsnmp10 libgpod2 libx264-56 libcairomm-1.0-dev
libxine1-gnome uuid-dev libpoppler-glib1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvd+rw-tools gnome-doc-utils gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gthumb gthumb-data
libgalago3 libiptcdata0 librarian0 libsoup2.2-8 nautilus-cd-burner
python-libxml2 sound-juicer totem totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla
totem-plugins yelp
Suggested packages:
cdrskin serpentine xsane gromit
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvd+rw-tools gnome-doc-utils gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gthumb gthumb-data
libgalago3 libiptcdata0 librarian0 libsoup2.2-8 nautilus-cd-burner
python-libxml2 rhythmbox sound-juicer totem totem-common totem-gstreamer
totem-mozilla totem-plugins yelp
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
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debian:/home/djmons#
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