[Vm-dev] GStreamer

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Apr 22 18:50:38 UTC 2008


There is a Windows binary bundle on the GStreamer download site:

	http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/

How hard would it be to include all GStreamer OS X libs in the  
GStreamer plugin? If we had one media playback solution for all  
platforms, that would be awesome ...

- Bert -

On 22.04.2008, at 20:43, John M McIntosh wrote:

> He is helpfully cleaning up things, it was rushed a bit since it  
> went from a paper idea to a plugin, api, sunits, and a player in a  
> three week period
> on the macintosh and OLPC.
>
> So he's refactoring now, but that won't affect anything in the  
> source tree.
> I *had* tried to avoid any source files but was force to make the  
> squeakAudioVideoPipeLineSignalInterface./c/h ones to support  
> callbacks for media source/sink interfacing to squeak.
> Those would be cross platform.
>
> I have no plans to provide any macintosh specific files since the  
> process of installing gstreamer on os-x is non-trivial. Well it is  
> trivial if you consider os-x to be a unix system
> and you are happy with using the BSD Ports system to install a  
> hundred or so unix components, which might be the case if you  
> wanting a fully configured X11 based unix which happens to
> be a macintosh....
>
> Obviously this is a high hurdle for a macintosh etoy user to deal  
> with, and requires using of a Terminal session, and debugging when  
> the installation goes wrong, which it does...
>
>
> However I understand installing GStreamer on Windows is less invasive?
>
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> (forwarded Josh's response)
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] New plugin support
>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:57:03 -0700
>> From: Joshua Gargus <josh.gargus at qwaq.com>
>> To: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
>> CC: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion <vm-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
>> >
>> References: <B95B2EA9-C0F5-4996-9475-75C99381BA7C at speakeasy.net> <480E0F24.4070504 at gmx.de 
>> >
>>
>> No problems with the GStreamerPlugin so far.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>
>>> Josh was just looking at GStreamer. I don't think he has any   
>>> problems but just in case I'm cc-ing him for comments.
>>>
>>> - A.
>>>
>>> Ian Piumarta wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm about to commit (add) cross-platform directories to support   
>>>> GStreamerPlugin and OggPlugin.  If anyone thinks this is a bad   
>>>> idea, please speak now.
>>>> (FYI: the unix tree will also be getting  
>>>> ClipboardExtendedPlugin,  DBusPlugin, RomePlugin and ImmX11Plugin  
>>>> in the same commit.)
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ian
>>
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