buzztard project status 01/09/2005

as announced in last month news, the focus was porting and ... it's done. Buzztard now builds against gstreamer-0.9. Just in time as the first releases of gstreamer-0.9 have been done.

So how complete is it and whats the difference?
The good news is that everything that worked before works again. The only missing thing is that some seeking stuff is still in work in gstreamer, so we use a hack for now to detect the end of a song.
Generally we feel that the new gstremaer is much more mature design-wise. E.g. all the threading problems we had withing the gtk-ui are gone, the play-position is reported more exact and so on.

We've also ported two machines - the sinesrc and the volume one to use the contoller, so that these examples work again.

Apart from the porting we did some cleaning up in the GUI ui. At first the machine context menu for adding machines to the machine view is now build from the gstreamer registry. This means it will automatically show all machines you can use. The machine-gui had also gotten some love.

Whats next:
* get more machines working
* make a working pattern editor
* switch the buzz-song loader live

Have fun,

buzztard core developer team
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