Comments on: Trick modes in GStreamer http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/05/05/trick-modes-in-gstreamer/ GStreamer and Collabora news and more Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/05/05/trick-modes-in-gstreamer/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/05/05/trick-modes-in-gstreamer/#comment-347 Thank you! This feature alone has kept me occasionally using MPlayer rather than Totem. I look forward to hitting a key in Totem to speed up or slow down playback.<p/>One question: do you just speed up or slow down the audio as well, like MPlayer does, or do you change the audio speed without changing the pitch, like MythTV does? I'd really love to see the latter, though even the former will help.<br/> Thank you! This feature alone has kept me occasionally using MPlayer rather than Totem. I look forward to hitting a key in Totem to speed up or slow down playback.

One question: do you just speed up or slow down the audio as well, like MPlayer does, or do you change the audio speed without changing the pitch, like MythTV does? I’d really love to see the latter, though even the former will help.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/05/05/trick-modes-in-gstreamer/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/05/05/trick-modes-in-gstreamer/#comment-348 I can see GStreamer trick modes being useful for playing back language audio, for instance, when slowing down "tape speech" is desired.<p/>With .edu being a big target for Gnome and Linux, I wonder if there could also be an alternative UI (mode) specifically aimed at playing back language study audio etc., with easy ways of adjusting playback speed, length of breaks, the number of repeats and even letting the listener to record his/her own pronunciation after each track and compare the two.<p/>The other side of the equation would then be authoring tools allowing educators to easily create organized and labelled audio and video oggs.<p/>And letting people take 45 min lectures (like "albums") and tag them with labels or headers denoting virtual tracks which could then be played back desired number of times in desired order etc.<p/>OK, these features would probably be up to other frontends to GStreamer but anyway, someone could help revolutionize the often passive way languages are studied. I can see GStreamer trick modes being useful for playing back language audio, for instance, when slowing down “tape speech” is desired.

With .edu being a big target for Gnome and Linux, I wonder if there could also be an alternative UI (mode) specifically aimed at playing back language study audio etc., with easy ways of adjusting playback speed, length of breaks, the number of repeats and even letting the listener to record his/her own pronunciation after each track and compare the two.

The other side of the equation would then be authoring tools allowing educators to easily create organized and labelled audio and video oggs.

And letting people take 45 min lectures (like “albums”) and tag them with labels or headers denoting virtual tracks which could then be played back desired number of times in desired order etc.

OK, these features would probably be up to other frontends to GStreamer but anyway, someone could help revolutionize the often passive way languages are studied.

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