Linux Multimedia and GStreamer

[peteog]

I recently ripped some clips from DVDs to ogg files using thoggen 0.4 then tried playing them back using totem-gstreamer in breezy (0.8). I found that the AV sync was a little off. I then decided to install gstreamer 0.9 and totem from cvs and wow, it looks like video under linux will eventually get there.

I just wanted to get some feedback to see how well the following oggs play on your computers...

right click save or they should play directly in the browser by clicking on them if you have the totem mozilla plugin installed.

XFiles.ogg (http://www.peteogrady.com/video/xfiles.ogg) (2mb)
MIB (http://www.peteogrady.com/video/mib.ogg) (4mb)
Layer Cake (http://www.peteogrady.com/video/layercake.ogg) (7mb)

[rubinstein]

I downloaded your files an they play perfectly here with the newest breezy and totem-xine. With totem-gstreamer however there is a noticable lag between sound and video. Maybe with ubuntu 6.04 I don't need to install totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer :-)

[poofyhairguy]

Maybe with ubuntu 6.04 I don't need to install totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer :-)

Totem Xine is so awesome though in Breezy.

Does Totem gstreamer play nice with the w32codecs?

[doclivingston]

Does Totem gstreamer play nice with the w32codecs?

It will use some of the codecs from it (including wmv9) if you install gstreamer0.8-pitfdll from universe.

[rjstevens3]

maybe that gstreamer0.8-pitfdll will solve all my problems!

i'm going to try it out. do i need any other packages to play anything i find on the web or on a disk?

[doclivingston]

You just need the gstreamer0.8-pitfdll package from Breezy universe, and w32codecs. It only supports a few codecs (wmv9, qd music 2 and indeo video 5) at the moment, but I've heard that it shouldn't be too hard to add support for others.

[benplaut]

grrr... i've never gotten codecs to work :mad: