Totem any time soon?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 22 03:25:44 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:11 -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> If that is this way, why rhythmbox (i'm talking about breezy) plays
> the
> file nicely? Why totem shows that bizarre error if you press the pause
> button and then the play - does it block itself?
> 

I suspect that gstreamer is defaulting to OSS output which bypasses
ALSA's software mixer.

> Anyway, why do we need alsa if the software mixer doesn't work on a
> application which makes something I did 10 years ago - play a mp3 -
> you can do that in a 486 with winamp - something that prone to error? 

It's not really prone to error, but it obviously won't work with a
broken configuration.

Lee




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