gstreamer-ffmpeg

I've got fc3 build of it in my (brand new) yum repo
http://mpeters.us/linux/fc3_gstreamer.php

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btw - it seems that the totem developers disabled dvd playback in gstreamer backend totem.
I'm not sure why - it was working fine for me - but I guess the radical changes they recently made to it may have broken it.

I tried you repo already last week..

After I got FC3 I had replced totem with totem-xine from Freshrpms .. but one I had YJL I decided to remove totem-xine -> do the group install -> install original totem .. but something seems to horribly broken since totem now segfaults on me when I try to play some MPG files that I have .. they work fine on the totem xine ..

Any ideas?

Yeah, FunkyRes, gstreamer seems like a cool idea and all, but I yum -> groupinstalled your plugins, and now my totem/gstreamer crashes instantly when I try to play mpeg or wmv movies.

If you, or anyone can show me where to get gstreamer mpeg or wma plugins, and get them to work, I'll use it. I'll just use xine in the meantime.

yum got me some updates to your plugins a couple of days ago but the problem still seems to be there ..

Try updating totem and see if the problem is still there.

http://mpeters.us/yum/fedora/3/i386/...yjl.1.i386.rpm

(that's the totem I'm currently using - not crashing with mpeg's for me, though sometimes the progress bar ends before the movie does)

If push comes to shove, you need to install win32 codecs and then compile xine-lib and totem from source. It seems to work fine on my system whereas the previous version of totem I had crashed when playing some media files.

Another wild hare thought -

The nvidia driver, oddly enough, was causing grep to segfault on my system - and slowing down some other apps.

If you have the nvidia driver installed, and totem crashes - look through the output of dmesg for kernel stuff with nvidia's name in it ...

I dumped the nvidia driver rather quickly, now looking for a ATI Radeon with OSS 3D driver (I think 8500 - 9250) - segfaulting grep, that's just, um, not acceptable. Tux Racer was nice though

Hi,

Just installed the latest totem (0.99.22) using the YJL rpm but still no luck. I tried gst-player as well with the same results ..

Also, I have a Matrox P650 running on the "vesa" driver...

I'm almost positive I know exactly what the problem is.

I just did a completely clean install on a test partition, and everything worked flawlessly - but I know why it is for me and not for you (I think)

The problem plugin is gstreamer-ffmpeg

My build machine is an Athlon XP 2700+

I bet that the rpm built with athlon specific optimizations.
I'm going to try to get ahold of a PII or PIII to test my theory.
In the meantime - what you can try, is uninstalling the gstreamer-ffmpeg rpm (that's the one causing problems, I can almost guarantee it) and rebuild the src rpm at http://mpeters.us/yum/fedora/3/i386/....yjl.1.src.rpm on your system.

I'm really thinking that will solve the issue.

I'm going out of town this weekend, but when I get back I will look at the gstreamer-ffmpeg configure script and documentation to confirm my suspicion, and try to obtain an Intel box to test my theory - and solve the issue.

Ok .. I'll try out your SRPM ..

Actually, it does (just check the package names, they change them).
You can also combine Freshrpms, Dag, Dries and most other as long as you don't use fedora.us, livna.org and Fedora Extras.
These 3 just refuse to be compatible:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#D

Ok , so I rebuilt gstreamer-ffmpeg from the SRPM and went ahead and installed it .. then I removed gstreamer-plugins-mpeg thinking ffmpeg should handle MPEG playback .. but now without the gst-plug-mpeg in place totem complains that it doesn't recognize the stream! Afte installing the gst-ffmpeg plugin I ran gst-register just to be sure ..

This however, led to a very interesting discovery .. with the gst-plug-mpeg and without the gst-ffmpeg totem crashes as usual .. but as soon as gst-plug-mpeg is removed - no more crashes! (But of course MPEGs still don't play)

So now, seems like the gst-plugins-mpeg is the culprit .. can anyone else confirm this? Also, with only the gst-ffmpeg in place why won't totem play MPEG files?

No, it doesn't.
I don't know of a single base or fedora extras package that has a file replaced by a rpm.livna.org rpm.

They add some plugins - IE their xmms-mp3 rpm. It installs a plugin and REQUIRES that xmms already be installed, for example.

Non of the big repositories does this anymore(changing base packages).
Dag, Dries, Freshrpms and others are all a 100% compatible with Fedora Base.
The problem only exists in what they add.
Since all repositories (like Livna.org) are not only meant for updating, but also for installing extra packages, they do change more than your base system.
Livna is known for adding already existing packages, without keeping the same name. That's what's causing all those dubble RPMs.

You either use:
fedora.us livna.org and Fedora Extras
or
Dag, Dries and Freshrpms.

Some of them actually do.
I believe dag does - I _know_ freshrpms does -

http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=400

That replaces the Fedora Core installed xmms package.

That's not necessarily bad, his xmms package may be perfectly fine.
And he has versioned it such that an update from Fedora would replace his, which is a good thing because the user doesn't lose out on a security patch if fedora releases one.

But it still replaces a Fedora Core installed binary, and probably should therefore be in a different repository than his main (until yum/apt/update allows you to generally specify that base/updates should not be replaced by others)

I see it as a problem with yum primarily, but until yum is fixed, you have to be cautious - because many of these repositories do include updates to base packages in them, which should probably only be installed if you specifically request them.