XVID and Edgy...still

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:59:47 +0800
"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got all these, but I've never had any luck with gstreamer in any
> version on any media files.  :)  I'm not sure at all why Ubuntu defaults
> to the gstreamer versions of things.

My experience is similar - but I noticed that the Feisty Herd 4 Live CD now
has "prompted automatic download and install" for totem-gstreamer when it
can't find codecs - ( works if you have a reasonable amount of RAM to add
apps on the live CD ramdisk ) 

To my surprise, with the "found" gstreamer plugins installed, most of my
movie and music files played from the mounted hard drive, with the
exception of a few .mov ( Quicktime?) files . Real media also are a no-go
so far.

The combination of gstreamer and ffmpeg has made strides in the last few
months, it seems. Even some .asf and .wmv files play just as well as with
w32codecs and the xine engine. Totem-gstreamer now also plays .flv files,
presumably using the ffmpeg plugins .

Big improvement. No doubt there are still lacunae, however :)


Peter