What wxMediaCtrl backend to use on Linux

[Steve Cookson]

Well, at long last I have migrated my beautiful Cross-Platform developed,
wxWidgets application to Linux (Kubuntu, since you ask), and I'm ironing out
the less Cross-Platform compliant issues. One such is what backend to use
for wxMediaCtrl.

I would be very grateful to know what backends people use and to point me to
any installation instructions, where necessary.

The one I'm experimenting with at the moment is GStreamer, but I've not got
it installed or running yet, I'm getting error "Got an invalid playbin
(error 0:Success)". Which leads me to believe that there are no wx
compliant back-ends installed.

Have a good day.

Regards

Steve

[Steve Cookson]

Well, it seems that it needs to be GStreamer and I've definitely got it
installed because other applications run using it. I can even write pieces
of code in Perl which call GStreamer, so what am I missing here?

I have:

- Kubuntu 9:10
- wxPerl 0.91-1
- GStreamer (libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 - 0.10.25-2ubunbtu1 (amd64),
libgstreamer0.10-0 - 0.10.25 (amd64), bluez-gstreamer - 4.51-0ubantu2
(amd64)).

However, there are 54 other GStreamer packages/modules that aren't
installed, and maybe I'm just missing one or two.

What are your thoughts?

Regards

Steve

[Steve Cookson]

Hi,

I am still trying to get MediaCtrl working on Linux (GStreamer), but I'm
afraid it is proving to be very stubborn. Does anyone have any idea where I
can find information on the GStreamer dependencies on this?

[Domingo Becker]

2009/11/11 Steve Cookson <steve....@sca-uk.com>:

>
> I am still trying to get MediaCtrl working on Linux (GStreamer), but I'm
> afraid it is proving to be very stubborn.  Does anyone have any idea where I
> can find information on the GStreamer dependencies on this?
>

I don't know about MediaCtrl, but I use GStreamer under Linux (Fedora
in my case) to play videos in meetings and for myself, with Totem and
GNOME MPlayer.
GStreamer plugins are under heavy development and are improving too much lately.
You may see codecs that used to be in a package are now in another
package with some extra functionality and bugs resolved.
Gstreamer homepage is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
You may find documentation there.

What do you need to play? (media format and codec required)
What does your code do? A very short example may help.

regards

Domingo Becker