Totem: gstreamer or xine?

[Andy]

On 4/12/05, joelbryan <joelbryanster at gmail.com> wrote:
> The default totem packaged installed in ubuntu is the dummy totem, which use
> the gstreamer framework.
>  
>  However, I could not play the WMV's, ASF's even installing the w32codecs
> and the gstreamer-plugins. This now point me to installing the totem-xine
> package, that would uninstall the gstreamer framework, which is I believe is
> better than standalone xine, because of integration to GNOME.
>  
>  I like to view the proprietary files but I like it to use the gstreamer
> framework.
>  
>  Maybe this is just a wrong installation, I want to ask, is this also
> happening to you after installing the w32codecs and gstreamer-plugins stated
> in the ubuntu tips & tricks procedures.
>  

It works ok on my system, although a quick experiment proved that xine
is faster and smoother playing.  Over-all gstreamer is still a
resource hog.  I'm sure that will improve though.  I left gstreamer
and totem installed and installed vlc as my primary client.  I think
it's a generally better media player than either xine, mplayer, or
gstreamer.  It has more capabilities and is not resource intensice on
my machine.  It's about as HIG compliant as a Dr's chart, but it still
works well.

At this time totem/gstreamer isn't as useable.

--andy


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Andy Choens
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