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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

Gstreamer and totem is by far more userfriendly and easy to use. Mplayer is a program that, as far as i know, dont come with an easy to use interface that uses new gnome libraries.

I know the above is not directly stated in the article, but I cant imagine that they think diffrently. Doing a movieplayer and not targeting it against gnome or any other good toolkits would be kind of stupid. Unless you target people who likes to crawl around in a terminal-window, which not all of us are.