Totem any time soon?

[Michael T. Richter]

On Tue, 2006-21-02 at 18:01 +0000, Joao Inacio wrote:
> Sorry for the harsh words, but from my user POV, totem and gstreamer
> could be the best software in the world, and they still would suck
> badly.

I agree with this sentiment.  Totem-gstreamer just failed to play most
of my video outright.  Switching to Totem-xine widened the playable
files, but led to bizarre errors like "audio device is busy" when
encountering AC3 audio.  Using xine/gxine/whatever I can play all of my
video files--even the AC3-encoded ones--with automagic downmixing to
stereo where necessary, etc.

Looking at the gstreamer web page, it looks like they've got an
interesting architecture.  But it's sadly lacking in filled-out details.
Until it's actually all there, available and working, gstreamer-based
apps just don't cut it from the end-user perspective.

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