Monday, 11 February 2008

New TLA features!

Totem GStreamer in SVN got 2 new acronym-laden features.

First is DVD playback. Unfortunately, we still don't do menus, but now you'll be able to play the films on your DVD. The support is on-par with the old GStreamer 0.8 code. Thanks to Tim for the guidance in writing this code.


Second one is DVB support. Zaheer did all the heavy lifting getting the code into GStreamer. Now you should be able to watch TV on your computer using Totem, given a channels.conf file was created. More info in the DVB section the Totem website.

Screenshot courtesy of Zaheer
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 14:22

    I'm wondering when will this hit Fedora?

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  2. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 14:25

    Is there any info on when DVD menus will be supported in gstreamer?

    Cheers,
    Artem Vakhitov

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  3. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 14:25

    FI NA LLY!

    W00T for DVD support!

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  4. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 14:35

    Interesting, I've been watching DVDs in totem + gstreamer-0.10 for some time...

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  5. prokoudine11 February 2008 at 14:37

    Nah, one less reason to use Kaffeine :) And yay for upcoming DVD menu support whenever it comes up :)

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  6. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 15:35

    Sweet! Will this be in ubuntu hardy?

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  7. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 16:34

    Good going to both Tim and You on getting this to work. I think are quite a few of us who will be happy not to need totem-xine for much longer.

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  8. Anonymous11 February 2008 at 18:47

    Cool! More reasons to love totem! You're my French hero of the day ;-)

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  9. Wade12 February 2008 at 01:34

    Is that a helicopter on fire crashing into a school in the DVB shot?

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  10. Anonymous12 February 2008 at 04:45

    like matthew, I haven't really understood what this is about: I can watch DVDs in Totem quite fine, sans menus.

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  11. Bastien Nocera12 February 2008 at 10:48

    Matthew, and Anonymous, DVDs won't integrated in the menus. Either it only played the first title of the disc using dvd:// (and you might get lucky with it being the actual film), or you put in the DVD title needed by hand, using dvd://2 for example.

    Either way, this now unneeded, and directly integrated in the menus.

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  12. Anonymous12 February 2008 at 19:39

    Ah, the beauty of taking the "just works" effect for granted!

    Thanks for the clarification, and your great work.

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