Seeking GNOME-Free Gstreamer Media Player

Slackwoman · 01-14-2008, 09:23 PM

Can someone recommend a Gstreamer-based media player that doesn't have any GNOME dependencies?

gilead · 01-14-2008, 09:47 PM

There might be one similar to it, but since gstreamer is based on GLib 2.0 I don't know how you'd get away from the GNOME dependency.

rvdboom · 01-15-2008, 12:53 AM

glib is not specific to Gnome, is it? It is in Slack anyway, as gstreamer is.
As for such a player, it seems to me that Kmplayer is able to do that :

http://kmplayer.kde.org

Weird BTW that kmplayer can use xine,Gstreamer or mplayer, while Kplayer use just mplayer. The naming would have been better the other way round. :-)

gilead · 01-15-2008, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rvdboom

glib is not specific to Gnome, is it?

I'd say you're right. As far as gstreamer goes, after reading the FAQ, gstreamer is independent.

Slackwoman · 01-16-2008, 03:55 PM

GStreamer has as a dependency glib-2.12.12. Slackware current only has glib-1.2.10 but also glib2-2.14.5. Is glib2 a replacment for glib or is it something completely different?

Alien_Hominid · 01-17-2008, 12:20 AM

AFAIK, glib is for the old GTK+, glib2 - GTK2+.

Slackwoman · 01-17-2008, 09:20 AM

So, based on the fact that GStreamer lists glib-2.12.12 as a dependency, will GStreamer run on a stock Slackware installation?

Alien_Hominid · 01-17-2008, 11:07 AM

I didn't find where this GStreamer dependency is listed, but it will work (glib2-2.14.5 > glib-2.12.12).

Slackwoman · 01-17-2008, 03:02 PM

I saw the GStreamer dependency listed in the Linux from Scratch guide. I was having trouble getting GStreamer set up in Slackware, I thought that might be the problem. I guess it's something else, then.

Alien_Hominid · 01-18-2008, 04:04 AM

That dependency is for particular gstreamer version. Newer gstreamer might require newer glib2.

Su-Shee · 01-20-2008, 08:19 AM

So, what exactly was the problem under Slackware?

Maybe we can just solve the real problem.

Slackwoman · 01-21-2008, 09:33 PM

Before spending any more time troubleshooting this I'm going to wait until someone can confirm they have GStreamer working in Slackware. Thanks for the responses.

Su-Shee · 01-22-2008, 04:26 AM

Uhm? The requirements are just glib and libxml - which slackware brings out of the box.

pkg-config --libs says:

-pthread -lgstreamer-0.10 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lxml2 -lglib-2.0

So, just glib, pthreads, xml basic stuff. There's also a recent package available at slacky.eu.

And yes, it compiles just fine. I just tried it from source.

Slackwoman · 01-22-2008, 03:43 PM

Yes, I'm using the packages from slacky.eu but when I run gst-launch to test it I'm getting errors. As I stated in my original post I wanted to try and get a GStreamer-based app I could use under OpenBox. If anyone has GStreamer working outside of GNOME let me know.

Su-Shee · 01-25-2008, 10:39 AM

As I said - no Gnome dependencies.

You surely did check the long list of gstreamer based applications on gstreamer's website?

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/apps/

which included several non-Gnome applications like Kaffeine and Amarok.

And the FAQ states:

Quote:

Q: Does GStreamer depend on GNOME ?

A: No. But many of the applications developed for GStreamer do, including our sample applications. There is nothing hindering people from developing applications using other toolkits however and we would happily help promote such efforts. A good example of an application using GStreamer, but which is not using GNOME is the Mozstreamer which uses Mozilla XUL.