W. Wayne:
That said, Fluendo plugins are based on the GStreamer
free media
streaming engine, and Sun employees are involved with
making GStreamer
work on Solaris.
I have a very negative experience with GStreamer in Linux
> (SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu). This experience was,
unfortunately, carried over to the Solaris/X86 platform
> without any further investigation.
I've been working on getting GStreamer working on Solaris
(and in general) for several years now. It has been a
slow ride, but I think GSTreamer in recent OpenSolaris
(Nevada) builds is quite good in terms of functionality
and performance. In recent builds we have just fixed
some of the most serious audio output performance bugs
with using GStreamer with SunAudio.
The fact that you can buy Fluendo plugins to play formats
like WMA and WMV is also a real plus, I think.
So, I'd recommend giving GStreamer on Solaris another
whirl. The Helix engine used by Real is also very
good.
Can you point me to any places that discuss the use of GStreamer
> in Solaris? Thanks.
I'm not aware of any Solaris specific forums for GStreamer.
However, there is useful discussion at the GStreamer website
and mailing lists. I find gstreamer-devel very useful.
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/lists/
Also the #gstreamer IRC channel on freenode is useful to
talk to the developers directly if you have questions.
> Also hope Fluendo will offer a package deal
> for Solaris plug-ins, similar to the Linux platform; this will
> greatly simplify the ordering process.
I believe they do provide a package where you can buy all the
plugins they currently have available for Solaris (mainly WMA,
WMV, Win-RTP, and MMS) for a single price. Since they don't
have MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 plugins ported to Solaris yet, these
obviously aren't in the package.
Brian
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