Totem any time soon?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 22 03:03:41 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:58 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-21-02 at 21:42 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:33 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> > > 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. 
> 
> > Why is this a bizarre error - you have a non-hardware-mixing sound card
> > and the sound server is blocking the audio device, so only apps that use
> > the sound server can output audio.
> 
> This is a bizarre error because:

This could be as simple as bad default settings.

Just out of curiosity, if you run gstreamer-properties what is "Output"
set to?

Lee




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