[Fwd: Re: New plugin support]

 
(forwarded Josh's response)

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Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] New plugin support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:57:03 -0700
From: Joshua Gargus <[hidden email]>
To: Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>
CC: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion
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No problems with the GStreamerPlugin so far.

Josh


On Apr 22, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

 
He is helpfully cleaning up things, it was rushed a bit since it went  
from a paper idea to a plugin, api, sunits, and a player in a three  
week period
on the macintosh and OLPC.

So he's refactoring now, but that won't affect anything in the source  
tree.
I *had* tried to avoid any source files but was force to make the  
squeakAudioVideoPipeLineSignalInterface./c/h ones to support callbacks  
for media source/sink interfacing to squeak.
Those would be cross platform.

I have no plans to provide any macintosh specific files since the  
process of installing gstreamer on os-x is non-trivial. Well it is  
trivial if you consider os-x to be a unix system
and you are happy with using the BSD Ports system to install a hundred  
or so unix components, which might be the case if you wanting a fully  
configured X11 based unix which happens to
be a macintosh....

Obviously this is a high hurdle for a macintosh etoy user to deal  
with, and requires using of a Terminal session, and debugging when the  
installation goes wrong, which it does...


However I understand installing GStreamer on Windows is less invasive?



On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

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There is a Windows binary bundle on the GStreamer download site:

        http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/

How hard would it be to include all GStreamer OS X libs in the  
GStreamer plugin? If we had one media playback solution for all  
platforms, that would be awesome ...

- Bert -

On 22.04.2008, at 20:43, John M McIntosh wrote:

 

On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> There is a Windows binary bundle on the GStreamer download site:
>
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/
>
> How hard would it be to include all GStreamer OS X libs in the  
> GStreamer plugin? If we had one media playback solution for all  
> platforms, that would be awesome ...
>
> - Bert -

Well to install Gstreamer on os-x that required installing all these  
packages below.  I did consider oh, well maybe you could static link a  
binary....
However this only is the install of the *GOOD* GStreamer plugins, so  
it won't support MP3/MPEG   For that you need to install the *BAD*  
plugins
and that's lots more software.

Still I'm not clear about the pain to get GStreamer installed on  
Windows?


The following ports are currently installed:
   aalib @1.4rc5_2 (active)
   atk @1.20.0_1 (active)
   audiofile @0.2.6_1 (active)
   bison @2.3_0
   bison @2.3_2 (active)
   cairo @1.4.10_0+quartz
   cairo @1.4.14_0+quartz (active)
   cdparanoia @0.9.8_0 (active)
   dbus @1.0.2_2 (active)
   dbus-glib @0.74_0 (active)
   docbook-xml @4.5_1 (active)
   docbook-xml-4.1.2 @4.1.2_1 (active)
   docbook-xml-4.2 @4.2_0 (active)
   docbook-xml-4.3 @4.3_0 (active)
   docbook-xml-4.4 @4.4_0 (active)
   docbook-xml-4.5 @4.5_0 (active)
   docbook-xsl @1.72.0_0 (active)
   esound @0.2.38_1 (active)
   expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
   flac @1.2.1_0+darwin_i386 (active)
   flex @2.5.33_0
   flex @2.5.35_0 (active)
   fontconfig @2.4.2_1+macosx
   fontconfig @2.5.0_0+macosx (active)
   freetype @2.3.5_0
   freetype @2.3.5_1 (active)
   gconf @2.20.1_0 (active)
   getopt @1.1.4_1 (active)
   gettext @0.17_0
   gettext @0.17_3 (active)
   glib2 @2.14.2_2+darwin_9
   glib2 @2.14.6_0+darwin_9 (active)
   glib2-devel @2.15.6_0+darwin_9
   gnome-common @2.20.0_0 (active)
   gnome-mime-data @2.18.0_3 (active)
   gnome-vfs @2.20.1_1 (active)
   gst-plugins-base @0.10.17_0 (active)
   gst-plugins-good @0.10.7_0 (active)
   gstreamer @0.10.17_0 (active)
   gtk-doc @1.9_1 (active)
   gtk2 @2.12.8_0+x11 (active)
   gzip @1.3.12_0 (active)
   id3lib @3.8.3_0 (active)
   intltool @0.36.3_0 (active)
   jpeg @6b_2 (active)
   libcaca @0.9_0 (active)
   libcddb @1.3.0_0 (active)
   libcdio @0.75_0 (active)
   libdv @1.0.0_0+darwin_i386 (active)
   libiconv @1.11_6
   libiconv @1.12_0 (active)
   libidl @0.8.10_0 (active)
   libogg @1.1.3_2 (active)
   liboil @0.3.12_0 (active)
   libpng @1.2.23_0
   libpng @1.2.25_0 (active)
   libsdl @1.2.12_0+darwin_9
   libsdl @1.2.13_1 (active)
   libsdl_mixer @1.2.8_0 (active)
   libshout2 @2.2.2_1 (active)
   libtheora @1.0beta2_0+darwin_9_i386 (active)
   libtool @1.5.24_2 (active)
   libvorbis @1.2.0_0 (active)
   libxml2 @2.6.30_0
   libxml2 @2.6.31_0 (active)
   libxslt @1.1.22_0 (active)
   m4 @1.4.10_1 (active)
   ncurses @5.6_0 (active)
   ncursesw @5.6_1 (active)
   openssl @0.9.8g_0 (active)
   orbit2 @2.14.12_0 (active)
   p5-xml-parser @2.36_0 (active)
   pango @1.18.4_0 (active)
   perl5.8 @5.8.8_0
   perl5.8 @5.8.8_2 (active)
   pkgconfig @0.22_0
   pkgconfig @0.23_0 (active)
   popt @1.13_0 (active)
   py25-gobject @2.14.0_0
   py25-gobject @2.14.1_0+darwin_9 (active)
   py25-numeric @24.2_1+macosx (active)
   python25 @2.5.1_2+darwin_9
   python25 @2.5.2_1+darwin_9 (active)
   render @0.9_1 (active)
   scrollkeeper @0.3.14_6 (active)
   smpeg @0.4.4_6 (active)
   speex @1.0.5_0 (active)
   taglib @1.5_0 (active)
   tiff @3.8.2_1+macosx (active)
   wavpack @4.41.0_0 (active)
   wxWidgets @2.8.6_1
   wxWidgets @2.8.7_0 (active)
   Xft2 @2.1.12_0 (active)
   xmlcatmgr @2.2_1 (active)
   xmlto @0.0.18_3 (active)
   xorg-util-macros @1.1.5_0 (active)
   xorg-xproto @7.0.11_1 (active)
   xrender @0.9.0_1
   xrender @0.9.0_2 (active)
   zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)

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