On 28 Mar 2006, at 01:09, Brian Cameron wrote: > > 1) Both Totem and Rhythmbox depend on gnome-vfs "cdda:" working > in order to play CD's. We currently do not build gnome-vfs with > cdda, and considering that the gnome-vfs configure.in script > says the following: > > [ --enable-cdda Enable cdda module (not recommended)],
Bummer. This sounds bizarre to me though-- I'd have thought the CDDA was only needed for accessing the CDDA database to look up track names on the internet, not for the actual lower-level business of playing CDs. I've used rhythmbox for a couple of years as my default CD player on various Linux distros without any problems, and AFAICT without any CDDA functionality (at least, no track names have ever been retrieved for me), so I'd always assumed they were separate features. Maybe those distros have all just ignored the advice, and the cdda module is just badly-named, though > 2) sound-juicer works great as a CD player and CD ripper. I > recommend we get rid of the gnome-media CD player and replace > it with sound juicer. Hmm, I'm still kind of uncomfortable about this. Sound juicer was never intended to be and will likely never be developed any further as a CD player, and is missing even the most basic of player features like repeat and shuffle. It is beginning to sound like it might be the best we can do right now though. As a matter of interest, what do the main Linux distros ship as their default CD player these days? > 4) I recommend we continue shipping totem for playing videos with > GStreamer codecs (currently only Theora, but will also support > MPEG4, WMV, and encrypted DVD's when Fluendo starts selling > those plugins). > > Does this sound reasonable? If so, I'll go ahead and add libcdio, > rhythmbox, and sound-juicer to our builds. Regardless of our ultimate decision on the default CD player, I'd like to see us ship totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer anyway, so +1 from me to go ahead and do this. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
