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[emms-help] Re: gst-wrapper?
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Tim Landscheidt |
Subject: |
[emms-help] Re: gst-wrapper? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:21:29 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Lucas Bonnet <address@hidden> wrote:
>> what's the business with gst-wrapper? It is referenced in
>> emms-player-simple.el as a player for gstreamer. Should it
>> be installed in $(bindir)?
> It used to be a player for EMMS, much like mplayer and mpg321 are, but
> using GStreamer directly. I don't know if anyone is still using it, I
> wrote the code some time ago for a couple of users, and stopped using it
> some time ago too :)
>> - The man page for gst-launch on my Fedora box says:
>> | Please note that gst-launch is primarily a
>> | debugging tool for developers and users. You
>> ^^^
>> | should not build applications on top of it. For
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Heh, well, we could remove it, if nobody uses it any longer, mplayer is
> a very nice replacement, even on embedded devices where GStreamer is
> heavily used. Furtermore, since GStreamer requires actual *compiling* of
> code against an API, I don't mind keeping it out of the tree.
I think then that removing it at this time would be favour-
able with the option to refine define-emms-simple-player &
Co. at a later stage to accept more complex command lines
(which I suppose was the original motive for gst-wrapper).
Tim