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#1 2005-10-10 00:19:48
- Gullible Jones
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GStreamer
Okay, GStreamer looks very nice in principle. I like the idea of a media framework that doesn't need Win32 codecs... But I have to ask: why the heck is it so slow? Why does it wait 3 seconds between playing MP3s? Why are GStreamer-based apps like Totem and Rhythmbox so slow to load, when Totem/Xine started up in the blink of an eye? And why does switching from OSS to ALSA output make these lags even bigger, if the ALSA output even works at all?
Am I missing something here? :?
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#2 2005-10-10 04:31:28
- deficite
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Re: GStreamer
I honestly don't know why GStreamer is so slow. The only thing I can guess at that would contribute to it is how complex they made it. The only thing I can get from google on it is that "it's being worked on".
Tis the reason I use mplayer and bmp. Totem and Rhythmbox have more features and I like their interfaces better, but at least mplayer and bmp work 95% of the time. Rhythmbox was slow and would freeze up to the point where I would have to either kill it or click the close button enough times so that GNOME will ask to kill it for me. Totem.....well, it would freeze up too.
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#3 2005-10-10 07:51:43
- Cam
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#4 2005-10-10 12:14:41
- Gullible Jones
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Re: GStreamer
I use MPD, and love it. My problems are with Totem, which I'm stuck with until the totem-xine package works.
(Grr... Why does Gnome have to integrate GStreamer, when GStreamer needs such an incredible amount of work?)
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#5 2005-10-10 20:36:13
- ozar
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Re: GStreamer
totem-xine 1.2.0-2 was just posted to "extra" this afternoon, so with any luck, maybe it will work for you.
oz
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#6 2005-10-10 21:03:56
- Gullible Jones
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Re: GStreamer
It doesn't. The totem-xine crash bug is an upstream problem.
(And even with totem-xine, my gripes about GStreamer still apply, since it's integrated into Gnome.)
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#7 2005-10-12 06:26:07
- JGC
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Re: GStreamer
Totem-xine should work without any problems now. Why GStreamer is so slow: it has design flaws. They're fixing this in the 0.9 branch, which is highly incompatible with the 0.8 applications available at this moment.
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#8 2005-10-12 10:42:04
- Gullible Jones
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Re: GStreamer
Yay, it works! Thanks!
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