Re: What use is gstreamer?
Thanks for going to all this trouble!
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, I wrote:
> > 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)?
> 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.
I tried that too.
> 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.
Totem-xine works for me, but I was unable to get totem-gstreamer to play it.
> 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.
I'll take a look at your list of deps and see what I'm missing. I did
get a conflict between gstreamer-ugly and gstreamer bad, so maybe
there's something in one of those which I need and don't have.
Thanks again for this above-and-beyond effort.
Patrick
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