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 - _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners