[squeak-dev] GStreamer progress

Takashi Yamamiya tak at metatoys.org
Wed Apr 2 17:56:32 UTC 2008


Great!

I compiled current olpc branch and it seems to be fine on my fedora
7. But how to test the plugin from a squeak image? I have loaded
GStreamer-Base-JMM.28.mcz into etoys developer's image, but I couldn't
find example codes.

Cheers,
- Takashi

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:02 AM, John M McIntosh
<johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> I've mostly completed the GStreamer implementation for the OLPC and for 32bit linux machines.
>
> The Squeak source code exists on http://www.squeaksource.com/GStreamer.html
> The C source code for the GStreamer plugin was committed to the OLPC branch on http://www.squeakvm.org.
>
> This software was not written for 64bit linux, but could of course be adapted, I have no plans to do so.
> This software was not written for Windows, anyone who wants to port, feel free.
>
> If you are using os-x you can install GStreamer (after much work) via MacPorts.
>
> The GStreamer Morphic player that is installed has an OLPC viewpoint, 16 bits and slow frame rate, but
> it could be adapted for proper frame rates and enabled to adapt to many more feeds from
> so called BAD GStreamer plugins aka MP3 etc, and of course allow feeds from the internet versus
> assuming media exists only on the current file system.
>
> Some work was done to enable squeak as a Gstreamer source for audio and video but that requires
> more work by someone who really wants that feature.
>
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> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.  http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
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