I think gaim 2.0beta_whatever (maybe from blastwave) uses GStreamer, but I never got it to work (although ISTR some email archives in which that was a known problem not fully resolved). I ended up using NAS (can't remember where I got that) and the associated auplay command, since that had less latency than audioplay (and no start/end pops), and less pauses and such than whatever JDS/GNOME would prefer one used as an audio server (esd?).
I would suppose that if someone plans to make some money selling licensed codecs (at a price that I would hope could drop substantially if they get enough volume!), it must be _possible_ to have GStreamer work decently, in which case some attention may be needed to make sure that it does, out of the box, on Solaris and with apps that use GStreamer (assuming use of the Sun supplied libs and not alternatives not under their control, like blastwave's, although it would be nice if those worked properly too, assuming that the problem is even there, which it might not be). I know there's lots I don't understand about it, but the whole audio scene on JDS/GNOME looks kind of ugly to me. It would be really nice to have a single audio framework that Just Worked with all the apps. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
