From: <bug...@wi...> - 2003-07-22 02:29:22
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Please do not reply to this email- if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter your comments there. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118033 Changed by ds...@sc.... --- shadow/118033 Mon Jul 21 21:57:07 2003 +++ shadow/118033.tmp.358 Mon Jul 21 22:29:13 2003 @@ -31,6 +31,23 @@ 2) Create GConf key desktop/gnome/sound/manage_gstreamer_audiosink. If enabled, then sound capplet will update system/gstreamer/default/audiosink depending on value of desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd. Enable manage_gstreamer_audiosink by default. Neither solution forces control-center or gstreamer to depend on the other. + +------- Additional Comments From ds...@sc... 2003-07-21 22:29 ------- +It's definitely a GStreamer bug. This is one of the reasons GStreamer +is "0.6" instead of "1.0". + +The problem is actually bigger than this, since GStreamer should +cooperate with KDE and other DEs as well. I think the plan is to +create a 'sensible-audiosink' plugin that will attempt to guess the +correct plugin to use. In that case, the gconf key would be an +override, so if system/gstreamer/default/audiosink="osssink", it will +prefer osssink over any other. + +The question left over is: how does one detect an appropriate audiosink? + +Someone needs to slog through this problem and come up with a good +solution. + |