Media testing!

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:07 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> we all love movies and we all want to make Dapper work as nicely as
> possible.
> 
> As some of you might have noticed, in Dapper packages with funny names
> like gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly and
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good recently turned up. With gstreamer 0.10 we
> got the shiniest and nicest media framework in.
> 
> What we need it testing and feedback from everybody: do your movies work
> as their supposed to? Just try totem-gstreamer and the
> totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin and see how they cope with your movies
> (or http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/media/) if you need test material.
> 
> The more detailed the bug reports, the better.
> http://launchpad.net/malone is waiting for you.
> 
> If you want to compare the default installation (with
> gstreamer-plugins-good0.10) to something, try totem with libxine-main1
> only.

Daniel,

I have a very eclectic/heterogeneous collection of videos... most of
them exhibit problems with gstreamer, when they play at all that is.
Today I installed every gst0.10 plug-in I found in universe/multiverse
and was amazed (pleased) to see that it can now open some of my MOV,
AVI, WMV and RM files, but with big playback and seeking issues most of
the time.

Are you asking to file bugs against the default gstreamer plug-in only,
or any gst0.10 plug-in ? If the latter, I am willing to file a few bug
reports, if upstream is really interested in investigating the problems
and fixing them, and it's not just filing bugs reports that will just
sit there... 

But can you please tell me how to proceed ? I mean, how can the devs
reproduce/investigate the problems if they don't have the actual video
file to see for themselves ? Can Malone (or the upstream bug tracking
system ) take attachments that weight several megabytes ???
If it's not possible to attach the videos to Malone, can you tell me/us
what tool to use to extract as much info about a video as possible ? I
mean, the "properties" dialog in Totem doesn't tell much, and very
often, many of the fields are blank (just says "N/A"), even when the
file does play properly.
I had the idea of using 'dd' (I tried "dd if=video.mov of=cut_video.mov
bs=512 count=400 ") to edit the videos to make them much smaller so it
can be attached easily, but sadly the resulting video is not always
readable.

Please advise, I want to help, I want a gstreamer framework that one day
will "just work" :o)


--
Vince