the cd-roms on most (all?) iBooks/powerbooks don't have a cable from the cd-rom to the sound card. this completely b0rks most cd players. i'm atatching a patch against gnome-media-2.4.1.1 to allow gnome-cd to use the gstreamer infrastructure in order to have the digital audio support needed on this hardware. currently, the ebuild just blindly does this for any ppc hardware. it should work on all hardware, i think, but many people probably want don't want to take the hit of doing so much work in software. it also added gst-plugins-cdparanoia as a depend to gnome-media. this probably isn't a big deal. this is also probably better assigned to the gnome team, but i figured the PPC guys could nudge them a bit since firing up xmms to play CDs is a pain.
Created attachment 22719 [details] tarball containing ebuild, new source code and patch filelist: gnome-media/ gnome-media/Manifest gnome-media/files/ gnome-media/files/gstreamer-gnome-cd.patch gnome-media/files/gst-cdparanoia-cdrom.c gnome-media/files/gst-cdparanoia-cdrom.h gnome-media/files/digest-gnome-media-2.4.1.1-r1 gnome-media/gnome-media-2.4.1.1-r1.ebuild
hmm, I kinda like the idea of having this default, mainly cause I dont' have a cable between my cdrom and the soundcards....
FYI: i've also posted this patch against gnome-cd itself. that bug is at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86331 hopefully the gnome-media is open to the patch.
hmm well, it is going the gstreamer way anyway, so in that sense i wouldn't mind much. After a quick look @ the patch here's a few questions i had : * It uses cdparanoia over the sys cdrom element because the latter would do what it does now (play needing a cable) ? * It includes linux/cdrom.h for info gathering i suppose, wouldn't it be nicer to have that done via gstreamer as well (don't think there's an element though) ? * It use a gconf call for getting the audiosink, why not use gst_gconf_get_default_audio_sink ?
* It uses cdparanoia over the sys cdrom element because the latter would do what it does now (play needing a cable) ? i'm not sure what you mean by "the sys cdrom element". * It includes linux/cdrom.h for info gathering i suppose, wouldn't it be nicer to have that done via gstreamer as well (don't think there's an element though) ? yeah, i don't know of an element. i agree doing it all in gstreamer would be ideal. * It use a gconf call for getting the audiosink, why not use gst_gconf_get_default_audio_sink ? good point. i didn't know about that call. i've modified the source locally to reflect that change. thanks.
a new tarball then perhaps?
What's the current status on this bug. Does it still needs testing on ppc?
if gnome-cd works with ppc cd-roms it isn't ..
Ok , so we need a Gnome user, with working audio, to test gnome-cd. I don't have audio on the G5. Any takers?
gnome-media-2.8.0 (current ~pcc) does not play CDs. Rather, it plays them, but no sound comes from the loudspeakers. xmms (xmms-1.2.10-r9 xmms-cdread-0.14a-r2) plays them without problem
can someone test gnome-cd from gnome-media on ppc ? If that works then this can be closed.
gnome-media-2.8 - plays audio cds, no sound gnome-media-2.10 - plays audio cds, with sound In other words, it looks to be fixed in >=2.10.
Should we leave that bug open until gnome-2.10 hits stable in the future?
Works for me, closing.
