On 16.03.2011, at 08:47, David Corking wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Sergio <forester.mirkwood> wrote:
I wonder if there is anyone who use GStreamer-related plugin/packages. Packages are marked as last updated near Nov 2008.
I am sure Scott, Yoshiki, John or Bert can offer an accurate reply, but in the meantime here is my rough guess of the situation.
As far as I recall, the GStreamer plugin was built by VPRI for the OLPC XO-1 laptop. (The laptop's Sugar software platform is a customized spin of Fedora Linux.)
It was developed by John McIntosh, paid for by VPRI, released under MIT.
There was no effort I am aware of to use GStreamer on other platforms.
John made it work once on Mac OS X, but it's a major pain in the neck to compile. The main platform is Linux.
The current Etoys images are based on Squeak 3.8 with a great deal of bug fixing and additional code. They work on most recent VMs. (The current version number 4.1.1 is merely a coincidence and has little to do with Squeak 4 images.)
http://squeakland.org/download/
after I'd loaded GStreamer into precompiled All-in-One-4.2, code I succeeded (after fixation of a couple of obvious errors) in constructing easy audio chain and playing OGG/Vorbis from file to ALSA.
If you can port the image code to Squeak 4.2 or trunk, I am sure it will be useful for all kinds of other Squeak uses on Unix/Linux.
Hope that helps until you get an answer from someone who actually uses it or maintains it.
David
I think maintenance is up for grabs. GStreamer is a great framework for media playback and deserves more attention.
- Bert -