Comments on: Java and GNOME

By: Michael Sheldon

Michael Sheldon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The GTK theme support in Swing is still pretty bad in 1.5; it looks like it’s been improved greatly in 1.6 (Mustang) though. The reason eMusicJ looks nice is because it uses SWT instead of Swing, and SWT actually uses native widgets.

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wish I knew a bit more what's happening, but the pipeline isn't too happy about the output -

jimmac@hal:~$ transcode2oggt /home/jimmac/Desktop/mystuff2.mpg foo.ogm
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/gnomevfssink0: Could not open vfs file "file:foo.ogm" for writing: Invalid URI.
Additional debug info:
gstgnomevfssink.c(383): gst_gnome_vfs_sink_open_file (): /pipeline0/gnomevfssink0:
system error: Success
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And it still does it even with:

transcode2oggt /home/jimmac/Desktop/mystuff2.mpg /home/jimmac/foo.ogm

transcode2oggt /home/jimmac/Desktop/mystuff2.mpg file:///home/jimmac/foo.ogm

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I’m using SWT for eMusic/J. It’s pretty easy, although it lacks the power of full-blown Swing (mostly because it has to cater to something close to the lowest common denominator of GTK, Windows, and OSX). However it makes it very easy to write something that integrates into the rest of the Linux desktop, which is what I care about given it’s what I use, and there is already a nice client for Windows and OSX. There are a few noticable differences, the main one is that the system tray icon is square in pixel-based counting (i.e. 16×16) whereas most native apps I think make it a bit wider so it appears square on a screen. One day I plan to see if that’s possible, but my few experiments haven’t shown anything promising.

By: Ole Laursen

Ole Laursen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any chances of a handy script for generating an Ogg Theora with sound from a sound track and a series of still images (say I have 1000 PNGs, 5 per second, and a .wav file)?

By: Martin Garton

Martin Garton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thanks for that transcoding script, but unfortunately for me it just seems to hang:

[martin@eel xgl_demos]$ transcode2oggt xgl-demo1.xvid.avi /home/martin/Desktop/xgl_demos/xgl-demo1.xvid.ogg
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...

Any suggestion?

By: Martin Garton

Martin Garton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Regarding my previous post, the problem was that the input file contained no audio. I removed “decoder. ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! queue ! mux.” from the end as succested by “__tim” on #gstreamer.