[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-05-01 Thread Mario Goebbels
Since OSSv4 already works with Solaris and it becoming the new audio subsystem, I tried compiling the OSS plugin for gstreamer. It's from the gst-plugins-good-0.10.4 package and works fine with the current gstreamer binaries in b62. Just drop it into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10 and use

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
OSS is in the pipeline and should be in Nevada sometime soon. GStreamer currently only supports SunAudio, but should also support OSS when it becomes available in Nevada. what do you mean? nevada might ship this: http://www.4front-tech.com/solaris.html? If so, it sure would be

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
xvideo used to work much better on older versions of xorg with my radeon 7000 card (I don't know what has changed recently to make it slow down so dramatically); Somewhere between snv_55b and snv_60 (snv_58?) linker options in the Xorg build have changed, which did break the Xv extension for

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Ken Mays
Just an update: 1. snv_62 (5.11) has X11 7.0.2 (latest: v7.2). 2. Commercial version of OSS 4.0 has professional sound card support. 3. GStreamer 0.10.12 is preferred for testing purposes. 4. Professional grade MIDI support is suggested. For people in the RME products (i.e.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jürgen Keil wrote: xvideo used to work much better on older versions of xorg with my radeon 7000 card (I don't know what has changed recently to make it slow down so dramatically); Somewhere between snv_55b and snv_60 (snv_58?) linker options in the Xorg build have changed, which did break

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ken Mays wrote: Just an update: 1. snv_62 (5.11) has X11 7.0.2 (latest: v7.2). No, snv_58 and later have X11R7.2 - there is no such thing as X11R7.0.2. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Ginn Chen Wrote: Thanks for making the explanation. My understanding is Xvideo can sve us time for YUV to RGB converting. Currently, by using SSE2, YUV converting is taking 3% CPU time for video playback on Solaris x86. So I guess XVideo can't be a magic bullet here. Meanwhile, Flash video

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OSS is in the pipeline and should be in Nevada sometime soon. GStreamer currently only supports SunAudio, but should also support OSS when it becomes available in Nevada. what do you mean? nevada might ship this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/04/07, Ken Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Professional grade MIDI support is suggested. Intentionally left out of OSSv4 initially, 4Front says they will be adding it later. For people in the RME products (i.e. http://www.rme-audio.com) like the Hammerfall DSP 9632 soundcard then we