Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:39, Chad wrote: > > Totem is a front end for xine > At the moment Totem[1] can be compiled against *either* libxine or > gstreamer[2]. At the moment libxine is the default; my feeling from > following GNOME-related discussions is that they are trying to make > gstreamer the default back-end.
Yes however for many formats gstreamer is not yet a reasonable alternative as a result most people compile totem against libxine. Totem backed by gstreamer is supposed to become Gnome default media player by either gnome 2.6 or gnome 3.0 I think.. Gstreamer look like a nice and fully featured media system but it requires a fair bit more work yet. I've played around with it abit and it's still too unstable and slow for practical use. Also totem + xine lacks a few configuration options. For example even though xines set to use esd totem uses alsa and there is no configuration option I can find to change it to use esd. Ignoring that though totems still a much better front end to libxine than xine it's self as far as I'm concerned. > > > It's quite simply faster and supports alot more codecs. Mplayer was what I was referring to there. xine playing an ASF Stream (Mircosoft compression codec) uses 25% of the CPU (450mhz) on average while mplayer uses 14% on the same stream. not very scientific but give an indication. chad > Which player is faster? > > [1] http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3 > [2] http://freedesktop.org/~gstreamer/
