Excerpts from Paul Davis's message of 2011-02-09 17:31:40 +0100:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
It doesn't seem to be up-to-date because
gst-inspect-0.10 jackaudiosink
fails with the message "No such element or plugin 'jackaudiosink'" and
base/bad/ugly plugins installed. I don't want to install good-plugins
because it would pull a lot of otherwise unneeded gnome dependencies,
you would have to check what package your distro has put the gstreamer
JACK plugin into. it varies from distro to disto.
It's in the good-plugins on Arch Linux,
note that gstreamer itself doesn't need most of
the things you
mentioned - most of them are artifacts of the way its been packaged.
After messing around for a while I managed to build gstreamer and gconf
without most gnome stuff (gconf being the obvious exception, and it
needs ORBIT for some reason).
Is there a way
to configure gstreamer on a modern gnome-free system,
possibly using a common tool such as a text editor?
you are not configuring gstreamer as much as system properties which
gstreamer happens to look up. i know of no way to do this with a text
editor, and just as it used to be that you could screw up your system
by editing the windows registry with a text editor, i suspect you'd
run into the same issue if you tried that with the configuration
information normally controlled by gconftool and friends.
It's an xml format so it should be possible to edit it, but I managed to
build and install a reasonably stripped down version of gconf.
gconftool-2 is also not easy to handle, the manpage is incomplete and
out of date. I'd appreciate it if you could add the following lines to
your jack FAQ:
gconftool-2 -s /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/musicaudiosink
["jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000"] --type=list --list-type=string
gconftool-2 -s /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/default/audiosink
["jackaudiosink buffer-time=2000000"] --type=list --list-typ
e=string
Those lines seem to work in case of smasher at least, but sadly not for
firefox (ogg playback).
Thanks, this is a step closer to usable gstreamer.