[oi-dev] Totem sad story

[Vincent Torri]

Hello

Just for your information: the Enlightenment project has a simple
video player that can use several backends on X (xine, gstreamer or
vlc). It's entirely in C.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-rage

best regards

Vincent Torri

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 9:15 AM Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> wrote:
>
> In regard to: RE: [oi-dev] Totem sad story, Alexander Pyhalov said (at...:
>
> > If it worked for you, it costs looking at. Have you actually used it
> > with non-nvidia adapter (at least, in virtualbox or with vesa)?
>
> I just tried it in virtualbox again tonight.  On a 1080p movie trailer
> using x264 encoding, it performed very, very poorly.  I wouldn't consider
> it usable, at least for stuff at that resolution.  I can't compare that
> to current totem in OI because current totem is using gstreamer-0.x, and
> I haven't been able to find a plugin that will decode x264 for that
> series.
>
> I'll submit what I have when I get a chance, but it probably won't be
> before Monday.
>
> Tim
> > ________________________________________
> > ??: Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu>
> > ??????????: 21 ??????? 2020 ?. 22:36
> > ????: Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
> > ????: Re: [oi-dev] Totem sad story
> >
> > In regard to: [oi-dev] Totem sad story, Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev said...:
> >
> >> Another option is to dig in clutter-gst and recent totem, but I'm not
> >> sure in the result.
> >
> > I've built clutter-gst and a bunch of the other prereqs needed for a more
> > modern totem.  I built totem 3.24 on hipster perhaps 3 or 4 months ago.
> > At the time, 3.24 was the newest I could build because anything after that
> > required meson.  I haven't been back to it since hipster got meson and
> > meson.mk/ninja.mk.
> >
> > The clutter-based interface is wildly different from the current
> > interface.  I recall there were some issues with the new grilo-based
> > plugins, including the youtube & vimeo plugins.  I didn't look any deeper
> > into that.
> >
> > I can dust this off and submit pulls for the work that I have, if you want
> > to take a look at it.
>
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