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gst-plugins-base0.10 package

[PATCH] doesn't pass audio data to libvisual 0.4.0 correctly

Bug #74118 reported by DarkMageZ on 2006-12-02

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

edgy's gst-plugins-base doesn't pass audio data to libvisual0.4 properly... which makes the visualizations look lame due to lack of doing anything.

Patch was taken from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357800 and fixed to apply cleanly against ubuntu edgy's gstreamer. It appears to fix the problem, no regressions noticed.

To demonstrate the point. Install the libvisual-plugins package. Launch totem and change the visualization plugin to something other than goom. Play a song and watch how lame it looks.
Now try the patched version of gst-plugins-base. Much better.

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DarkMageZ (darkmagez) wrote on 2006-12-02:

working patch Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote on 2006-12-06:

This is fixed now in feisty

Changed in gst-plugins-base0.10:
status:	Unconfirmed → Fix Released

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DarkMageZ (darkmagez) wrote on 2006-12-08:

i am hoping on having this patched in edgy or good reasoning on why this patch is a bad idea against this release.
that attached patch is a slightly altered version of the upstreams version to make it cleanly apply against the edgy version.

i don't wish to ship unapproved alterations to gstreamer without guidance. without this patch, gstreamer's libvisual is inconsistency between dapper/feisty vs edgy.

i've been running this myself for a week now and i personally haven't managed to find any regressions in it (i've been using the visualizations daily).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-12-08:

The patch is not likely to be used for edgy, the stable update procedure is not trivial and can't be applied to every little bugs. That bug is about non-default visual effects and you are the only one to have opened a bug about it, that's a small problem and such not likely to justify a stable update