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New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

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As many of you know Fluendo is paying Ronald Bultje to work fulltime on fixing GStreamer playback issues at the moment. The goal is to make Totem and GStreamer the best video player for Linux and Unix. Ronald have been fixing tons of bugs and Wim Taymans have also chipped in to fix a lot of playback bugs. These two releases, of GStreamer core and GStreamer plugins, contains all the bugfixes so far. Ronald will continue working on improving playback but we hope the community will help us by testing these releases and providing bugzilla reports with files attached of files still giving you issues. Of course patches never hurt either :)So check out the release notes and grab the tarballs and start testing.

Download instructions and release notes for GStreamer 0.8.7

Download instructions and release notes for GStreamer-plugins 0.8.5.

You need latest Totem version 0.99.17 to test as this contains some extremely important updates to its GStreamer backend.

With the fixes in this release and those who come as a result of testing done by the community based on these releases, the goal is to switch Totem over to using GStreamer as its default backend for one of its future releases.

P.S. For testing non-free formats you need a new release of gstreamer-ffmpeg package. This will be released on thursday (tommorow).

Re: New releases of GStreamer and GStreamer-plugins

The goal is to make Totem and GStreamer the best video player for Linux and Unix.

I admire this goal. But it would take much more to take on mplayer. As for video playing, gstreamer is now where mplayer was with 0.3 release and this difference is growing only larger.

After testing Totem more than 20 times now, it just came to my nature that its removal (and installing mplayer) is the first thing I do on every Linux I install.